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Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1869), 1872-04-06

Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1869), 1872-04-06 page 1

VOL. LXV LSWJ!S' a run. o, 18. NO. 31. COLUMBUS, SATUKDAY, nwr. Nonr.TY. I'll (ill Vim : nil I lie lixr I Know mankind, Tin- inon- I thank lod, llk.'ruyttrmi.lnii.ltii r, T.ir iniikinjr mo n Hllc lower tlimi The im.-i.-ls, hm.n-cl')t!n.l mvlRlory-erowtiwl: This r Hi.- li.mur lli:t no thing I know, Fii- or loiii-Hvc, but 1 ewi make yon own "iJiiH'hnw, dy ii" of luuul or head or heart : Tht i tiro glury ttml in nil coiu-i.'iveil, ' Ir felt or known, T rceogniw n toiml No mini' I'Ut lit.i- niitu'-f ir the iloM- joy Miikm "11 iliiityi for inc nn-l dig for linn. There's folly for j.ni tit tin:" time of tiny t 1 hu ll. iiMii Is, llinvli Klcrnitv, The t'H'.tlizin;', i-vi-r unil mum, In iimnn'iitiiry ninitre, gtcut.willi smalt, lliiitiiwiCLK'c wilh liilcllnjt-nee, Urnl Willi mim tin- tluni'lcr-glow from pole to 'silo Ahulishini;, n tiliNsfnl moment -space, limit i-lotnl likt mi l siunll cloml. In one lire As sure to phh a sore ngitin lo lhw WliMitlic new re-'titity ituirvi-s The nt-w i-HiniK'lioli. There' tin' Hi'jveii for Ami I siiy, tlieri'l'.ire, to loe oiih'h lift - irtlii' worlil InTc, Hill tin- r linnet whether ly or ilciiniii' lie Die jivoim-ss, I'tiitf or slum Tim linn', august or menu 1 1 ? i-iri:iiiiiMiuiii'i' To hnidfjfi eye of teaming liniv set foot H'iil.'lR mi mmii'oiit' Till i lo II .-H ven. Touch sei(iiiint in the circle wli'-ncc all line l:ti to (h iiti'reii iUy, red lim-i Mr l1:i"k lines, -d tlii-y hm oiniliiei' lli.tu- lllH- This I il :iy :iihl ln-iv my senium eiul Thin makes it Hurth mir u loh- to tcli.tcrly . Hamlin a stale of l hi ii if-, uliirh iiiiml we iitinlit, M ir hi- tii:iy, hut which itiemiw Ink- lulpssu fur. Therefore my emt is sine society ! -.Wi H-rt J(iW.hiV SnW.ifSwj, MiliH-lii'il in 111" Ohio Ktnto .loimml hy ie mission of II :n-ji-i- X llmtlu-i's, who jitiieliim mlvaa-i' sheet lii'iii the nut Km' for IIiiIht Weekly. POOR MISS FINCH A IIiiimonIIc ftlory - II V WII.KLK COLLIN.-. Author nf "Tli" CHAFTLR FOKTY-KIGHTH. ON TIIKWAVTOTIIK EN 0. K 'I tKli HT AH K, - K;rly riser us 1 was, 1 found that Oscar liinl risen earlier Mill. He had K-ft tho rectory, and had disturls-d Mr. Ituiilliu-riil"e'H moriiiiif,' hIiiiiiIkm by nn nii)icn-t kit itt llit inn lor tlie key of 1 trow in low n. On lii rclnrii to I lie nvtury, hy miTt'ly Hitiil (hut lie liuil Ikh'H to hcu iifu-r vurioin tliinm IfeluiiKiitU I" t'iin which were mill lilt In the empty ii-ttiM). lliit look itnd niaiiuiT an Uv t(avo thin Lrict oxplanntiun wcrt', t my niiml, moru tin a lift hu'tury than ever, I niailf no ri innrk; und, tih-HcrvitiK tliiit Iim Iikimo tnivuliii emit wiih Ittittinu' away ovit tlm hreast, i not it riiht for him. My IiiiihI, I did lliin, luuelifl Id' hreant jiiMikct. Hu HtarUil hack directly, tm If tlure wan MmiethiiiK in the pockcl which lie Ud nut winh mi; t feel. Wrh it Homt-thiiiK hv h:id liroitglit from llrowiidown? W'v jfot away uruiiilitred hy Mr. Kiiir-h, who iimi.-ttd on alt aching hiinwlf to Mcar hy the iirnt uxiiretw traiiwliich took uifrnlrninht lo l-onduii. t'oitijiariwiii uf ttiuc-tiher't mi rennliiiiK the tcrminiiH, fihowed Umt 1 Jiad leUuiu to Hpare for n brief vinit td Oron&o lcforo we HKin took ttic railway buck, to Nydauliam. J living i ' tleeidcil not t mwition tbd bml new about ""-". Lttrtlli'i-eyen to (hear Until i had ieon - ,Hrtfl'inn..ftrtt, 1 nmdo tin bwt exeune - -V 4jint uifnoliUJ-i(,4r'1d-drove-away c-w .Ituxiiif; the twuffrmk't'U u (h .waiiin ,- " twin n1lieMntiih, i 'f4ri t rt'inil Kirn11 -amliiiij-1 hqiMiiv ,-; ?J,..:urT?'Witii-'lH--l6f'&tVV; ii'Ol tiiv'ctiinl 0 ' .yipKlbii)vh-iivf.ttl''rt'' wuuliii' urnl" Knt; lii-li was more irrotcsuuc than ever. -W hen 1 appeared at the door of his room and said good morning in the frenay of bi impatience, he shook his list at me. ''tiood-nioriiing go-damn!'' he roared out. "Where? where? where in Fceiich?" I told him where we believed 1-tlcilta lo Ik', (irnssv turned bis head, and shook bin list at a Utile on the chimney-piece next, "Oct (hat bottles on (he chimney," he na'nl. "And (he eve-halhs hv the side of him. Don't Mop with yourinlky-talky-cbatlenitiiius here, tin! Save her eyes. Look! You do this. You throw her bead hack soli !" He illustrated lite portion so forcibly with his own head that heshook liisgotilv foot, and screamed with the uain of il. lie Went on, never theless, glaring frightfully through his tqicctuclcs, gnashing his mustache llem-ly U'lwccu his teeth. "Throw her head back. Fill the eve-baths; turn his up sides-down over her oiH-n even. Drown ibeiii itirn-luru-ulHiiil ui my mixtures. Drow n tht'iu, 1 siiv.oiir-dowu-loddcr-cimc- on. und if phr senveh never mind it. Then bring her to me. For the lofe of I iolt, bring her to inc. If vou tie her hands mid foots, bring her to me. hat in the wotnaus nloiiuinir for? tio ! iro ! l'o !" "I want to itk you ft question about Oscar." I said, "k-fore 1 go." He ncitcd the pillow which supported bin head evidently intending to expedite mv departure by throwing in 11 1 me. I produced the railway time-table as (he Ik -it di feunive weapon at mv command. ' ,nok at it for yourself,'1 I said, "and (hat I bail at lc:il ten minutes to sHire, which might lie just us well passed in consulting him. He cIonoiI his glaring even, and laid his head back on the chair, thoroughly exhausted with his own outbreak of excitement, "No matter how thing" goes," he said, "a woman must wag her tongue. Ooot. Wag yours." "I am plao-d In n very dillieult jNisilion," I liegan. "Oscar is going wilh me to Lueilla. ! shall, of course, take care, in the tirsl place, that he and Nugent do not meet, unless I am preen t at the interview. Itut I urn not equally sunt of what I ought to ih in the caw of Lucilla. Muut I keep them apart until I have lir.-t pre-pan d her In see IMcar?" "Let her see ihe devil hiniHelf, if you like, growled Oronse, "so long us you bring her here allerwurd direclly to me. You will do lite bettennost thing if you prepare Osrnr, She wants no prei:irti-liotis ! She is enough disappointed in him im it is." "Disappointed ill him ?" 1 repeated. "I don't understand you." He settled himself wearilv in his chair, and referred, in a solteneif and saddened lone, lo (hat private conversation of bin with Lucilla, ut Itatusgale, which had already Urn rcHirted in the journal, I was now intorinetl, lor the lind lime, ol those changes in her sensations uud in her ways of thinking which had mi keenly vexed and inortilicd her. I hcatd of the otniinnin absence of the old thrill of pleasure when Nugent look her hand 011 meeting Iter nt the sea sitle I heard how bitterly hif personal apcaranee has tliap))ointetl her wheli nhe had seen his features in detail I, by comparison with the charming ideal picture which she had formed of her lover in the days of her blindness; thom' baipier days, ns she had culled them, when she Was I'oor Mis I' inch. "Surely," I said, "till ihe old feelings will coiir- buck lo her when she seen Oscar?"" They will never come back lo her ho, no if she hccs lil'ty Oscars I" He wa In-ginning to frighten mc, or lo irritate me 1 can hardly say which. I only know that I iN-misted in deputing witli him. "When w sevn the true man," I went on, "do you mean lo say she will feel the nuiiie diapioinlmeut '' I could get no further than that. He cut ine short there, without ceremony. "Vou foolish womaus!" he inlerposnl, "she will feel more than thowinie. I have told you already 11 was one enormous u-apK)inlineiils o her when she saw the handsome bnidder with (he fair complexions. Ask your own self what will it Is- when ulio s-s tlngly Imwlder with the blue face, I I. II "w-u this; -she will think vnur true man theworrt imiKwlor of ihotwo." There 1 iiiiugnnntly rontradieted nun. "IIU face ; be a diMatitiiiitmcnt lo lier," I Hnid: "1 own that, lint tliere It will end. Iter hand will tell be r, when he taken It, tlial there in no iintmnttir de- oeivinK her thUtime." "Her hand will tell her imtliiiif nn more than yonre. I had not so much hard heurbi in me on to Ray mat to nor wnen nIio nukeil mc. 1 xav it to you. ilnhl your tongue and listen. All those tbiill-lini'lcfl that she once hail when he toueli- etl her IjehinR to anodder time the timo Rtine by, when her Bight wan in her liu-Kerit ami not in her eyeit. With llume line-HiiH'rlin feelingH of the days when kIid wait iiiinii Hue pays now lor tier Rranu new privilege of ojieuing her even nn the world. (And'worth the yrive, too !) l)o j vmi nndcnilniid vet? It im n sort of hwoii hnrirain between nature and thin poor girl of otin. 1 takeaway your even I Kivc you vour tine toueh. I irive vmi yourerea 1 take away your line touch. Moh ! that in plain. You nee now?" 1 wan too mort mod and too in iw nil Me to aiiHwer him. Throitnh nil our later troubles 1 bad looked forward no confidently to Owar'a re-appearance an the one mil liount condition on which I.uetlla'rt hap-1 pineiw would be certainly rentored 1 What had lieeome of my anticipation! now? I natnileut, ntaritif; in stupid deprennion at tho iiallern of the carpel, (irosm' took out liirt watch. "Your ten-mlnutctt-tiine has couuled lumnclf out," lieanid. 1 neither moved or liei-dd him. His ferocious even bcan to flame uxuin behind bis uioustroun xjiectueles. "( to-lvoll'-with-you !" he nhoutiil tit me an If 1 wiih deaf. "Her even! her eyes I While you stop clmtteringbox here, her even arc in danger. Wnat with her iii'ttiiiKs and Iter eryingn mid herdaiim-iioiisense-loft'-ljusiness, 1 swear you my solemn onlh her sight won In danger when 1 saw her a whole fortnight gone hy. Do you want my big pillow to lly bang at your head? Io you want him?Itc-oti-away with you, then, or you will have him in one-two-three time! Ile-ohV-awav, and bring her hark to me before night !" 1 rcttirnd to the railway. Of nil the women whom I passed in the crowded si reels, I doubt if one lind a heavier heart in her hosnm that morning than mine. To make matters worse still, mv trav eling companions (one in the refreshuient-room ami olio pacing the platform) received my account of my interview with iirosse in a manner winch nenoiihly 1h-appointed and discouraged me. Mr. Finch's inhuman conceit treated my nt-aiicholy newn of his daughter as a upci'ie of cotiiplimeiitary tribute to his own foresight. "You reniemlHT, Madame I'rato-1 ungo, T look high ground in thin mailer from tho first. pri tested against the proceedings of the man (irodw) nn involving a purely worldly interference with the ways ot nn inscrutable rrovideiiee, itb whut etli-ct? My paterniil inllueiico was reimdiated: mv moral weight was. no to sjieak, act aside. And now you sec the result, lake it to heart, dear friend. Mav it be a warning to vou !" He sighed with ponderous complacency, and turned from ine lo the girl behind' the counter. "I will take another cup of ten." Oscar'n reception of ine, when I found him on the platforin,-and told him next of J.ueilla's critical Uitc, was mure than discouraging. It in no exaggeration to iay that he alarmed njc. "Another item In. the tluht I owe to Nugent!" ho said. Not a word of nvm- pathy, not word of sorrow. That vin dictive answer, and notluDK more. Wo ktarted for HTdnihum. Krum. liiue to iiuie 1 lookail at Oscar sitting oppoifiic to ma, (ostwifany ehuiige H'l''y '''-''im ''wt drew iieurtT U the. Nu! SliU Ibctut'omiuoiwailai-ilv h.tm uimuuml scirn-tni,,!! iwkki-bi-i1 I him. Fxeept (he moiiientary outbreak ! when Mr. Finch hud placet I Nugeut's letter in his hand on the previous evening, 1 not the fa intent token of what wan really going on in bin mind had esc;iHil him since we had left Marseilles, lie, who could weep over all his other griefs as easily nnd us spontaneously an a woman, had not xhctl a tear since the fatal day when he hail discovered lli.it his brother had played him false that brother who had been Ihe god of his idolatry, the sacred object of hisgralitudcaml his love ! When a man of Oscar's tetiiH'ruiueiit Incomes frozen up for days together in his own thoughts when he kccM bin own counsel when he asks for 110 nyttiialhy, and utters no complaint ihe nig it is a serious one. There are hidden forces gathering in him which will burst their way to (he stirfaif for good or for evil with an im-sitihle result. Watching (War attentively Miind my veil, I felt Ihe certain a-surance that the part he Would take in lite terrible, conflict of interests now wailing us would lie n part which I should remember lo the latest dav of my life. We reached Sydenham, unil went to the nearest hotel, On the railway with other travelers in tho carriage it had Urn imsissihle to consult on the safest method of approach ing l.ucilla 111 the lirsi ihmuuiv. 1 hat ncrioiin question now prcscd fur instant decision. We sat down to consult on it in the room which we had hi ml at the hotel. A Frenchman, writing In the Oaulois, gives nu account of his sensations while hanging himself, which may Ik; of lnelit to persons of a suicidal turn of mind, and who would like to know "what the thing In like." An if preparing to hang up his coat, he drove u uatl into llie wall, and therefrom suspended himself by n loojied cord, which he fastened nUiiit his neck, and then slow I v kicked nwav his chair. From the crown of bis head to the soles of Ids feet he felt a "general mixing Up ot Ihelluiilsor the lusty. Him was tmc-iveded by a (lushing, dancing light Ifforc his eye, and then concentrated nt a single focu anil theiun rippled into space in concentric circles. His head seemed com-pressed in an iron ring; needles without iniinlier soemetl to dart from the ends of his lingers anil toes; then (hen1 wasn terrible snapping at tho nuc of his neck, and a serient seemi'd In wriggle down his spine. His Inst sensation was one of pain at the throat nnd slioulder-blndes. He had exjiecleil to wake up and lind himself dead, but kind or unkind friends cut him down Till; Chicago Font's Flains corns pond-enl writes: "I never saw so ninny Indian in mv life. I should think (hen1 were n million at leant, 1 won't take oil' an Indian; though several of tbcin will tret taken oil' lie fore snrini: if Oeneral Pal mer moves westwant. Thev nn dn-sscd mostly In blnnkets ami fs-nr's gnase. They ure conliding s.tjile, Yestcnlay a suiid of thirteen came into our tent, and the oldest availed himself of (he right of seniority by sitting down on our hoi Ivox nlovc, which he mistook for a valise. He was very much surprised, and the (Quarter master has been issuing laudanum sitiltiivs ever since," A VAi'ASi'V having oct'iimnl in n certain ehun-h by reason of the rcsignalton of (he organist, ihe (rutees advertistil fur elr. Among (he numerous n-plii-s to the '' """hi"""'" announcement : "t .cnlleiuen : I notice your advertisement lor unraiusi ami music teacher, either lady or genlleman. HnvllJc In-en both for some years, I oiler yon my serviifH. "A basket of champagne!" exclaimed a country dame. "Why I declare, now ! I always thought champagne was watery stall' like ; 1 never knuwed you could carry il in a basket." 'Twus hut n hri'iiih And yet u woiinui'h fuir imiiie In wiltiil. And friuuils oik u mhiiii k'i w ! i mul "liluil, Ami lite M wui-'i' limn .li xih. One Vi'iiotneil wonl. Tlitt ninii-k IIh eouaiil jmt-uneil IiIdw 111 cruii'ti Hliiijicrs, hiitilivl unil Iuh, Ami jet the wiA- worhl licnnl. 'Twin hut out' vi Jii-nTfil one 'Pint tiitilten rt linv I'm- wry h;uin., '11 1 ill tiling tin fhti.ili rcr iture nut u itne, Ul UsHul'k Uilfl ihniv, A hint o flight, Ami vet hi iiiihty in it- power, A Imiimii hiU I, in oik- .hurl 1 r, Lie 'rie.lie.1 1 th il-t HulKht. THE Tltl'E TALE OP MAniLTII. The marvelous Beiliun of Shiikesiiearc may be said to have made Macbeth; for, without that illustration, of what interest or value would have lcen the name of a hc mi-barbarian Scottish monarch of the eleventh century? Hut it has destroyed mm; lorn lias iixeii me inisrepnieiita-tioun of his character on such u bawis, that nothing can ever annul them ; Maclieth must lie the moral of murder und usurpation in bin rank unto all time, Nevertheless, our curiosity in interested to know who and what this man really wav: and erhaw all the more so, (hat our loeticnl conception of him is so diU'crcnt from the reality. It cliuncen that on Ibis ioint some new historical light has of lale been thrown, which may be ptvsunuil to give tin additional interest to tho subject; wc shall therefore, without anv apology or further remark, priHiil to give a brief account of the Mavbcth fact. The true historv of thin iK-riod is for the first tunc related in Mr. William Skene's work on the Highlanders of Scotland (li vols., Murray, lfvlti), U'ing compiled mainly from the Irinh and Norwegian annalists. It is surprising how much it di tiers from the meagre and semi-fabulous accounts which descended, becoming more fabulous as they went along, from our earlv native historians to UuUiiished. who liually gave tlie full-blown tissue ol marvels to Shakcsieare, It apiears llttit, in the yeur It lit 1, the Scottish monarchy came to a sort of pause, on the overthrow and slaughter of a King Malcolm by a powerful Norwegian eliief or Karl of Orkney, named Thorium, lly this gmtt warrior the northern nnd custom (uirls of Scotland were sulslucJ, as far ns the l-'irlh of Tay, but leafing, apparently, certain dislrieui nt ill under their native chiefs. And this divisou of the country lv n Norwegian sway lusted thirty years, ihoiigh il is u fact hitherto totally unknown among us. The restof the K-ople of Scotland raised up a monarch in lite person of Duncan, whom mother wan a daughter of tho deceased Malcolm, his father lieing frinuu, nominally Abbot of Dimkeld, but In reality a powerful chief in the dint riot of Allude. To pursue Mr. Skene's intelligent nur-ratiou:In personal character Duncan won far from lieing wcll-litted for the dillieult situation in which he was placed, but being the only chief of the northern Met who remained uustildue:l by the Norwegins, lie was the most likclv nerson to preserve tlie ret of Scotland from tneir grasp; anil during the whole of his reign, he appeared to have lieen unmolested hv Tliorlinn in bis eircumscrtlied doiiiiuions. T lie Scots, hav ing lluis enjoyed during 1 Juneau's rcign.MX yearn of reHiKc, began to consider their strength siiltieieutly recruited to attempt the recovery ftlH' extensive U-rritorku inJ t)ie nortli Which Thortinn lind comtuercd. taking qdvanuigu, accordingly, tit the trniMrary absence ol .TIiorfinM. who won engnl with the greater purl of hi- Nor-1 Wrgian- foroc in Wl KagUsh uxpeditign, exited it ion, Duncan atlvanivd (oward (he north of K-otlamlanil siirttjiltdJn -U'anJHloi .'ru-h jkui n.aily did ttli tU iK iiu uuHiii 1,111 ..11 ji itf 1, 1 mum nr- i lkjVyi''U.luviiwj Tifei.irltc iliuahilaios tlie north, however, who prcl'ernil remaining under the Norwegian yoke ralher Ihan submit to a chief of their own race who1 title lo the throne they could not admit, opimscd his further irogn'ss, nnd Mudicth, tlie maormor of Moray, atlacketl him near Flgin, det'eatetl his iirmv, and slew lite king himself. M.icU'th imnuiliately look advantage of thin success, and, nssi-led by the Norwegian force which still remained in the cotinlrv, he overrun (he whole of Scot - land, and speedily made himself master of all thai hud remained iiuconqurrcd hy the Norwegians. The nous of Duncan were iMlged lo lice; Ihe eldest took refuge at the court of Kugland, while (he sii'ond lied from the veugeamv of Maclieth to ihe Hebrides, ami surrendered to 'I'horlinn himself. MncU-Ih assumed the litle of king of Scotland, which lie claimed in right of his cousin Malcolm, and, notwithstanding nil the ellorls of the S-ots, he mainlaineil jMiwssion of the crown for a js-rifHl ot eighteen years. Although Mudicth was a native chief, and one of the Oaelic maortnora of the north, vet his conquest can only lie eon-sidcnil with regard to its cllicts ns a Norwegian conquest. I Ic had pn-viously Ui-n tiibutarv lo that people, anil it was hv their assistance principally (hat heIn.--came King of Scotland; so that nt this period wo mav consider the whole coun try nn having liecn virtually under the dominion of the Norwegians Tliorlinn himself ruling over the northern districts. while with his concurrence Macbeth reign ed in the southern half. During the reign of Macbeth, the adher ents of the A thole family made two several attempts lo recover H)ssenston of (he throne lint they wen Until equally UimiiccohsIiiI. The first accunvd in ihe year l(M', when Crinnii, the father of Duncan, attacked Miicls'th nt the head of all the adherents of the family of Scotland. Crinan's defeat was total, and the slaughter very great; for, in the concise words of the Irish annalist, "in (hat 1ml lie was slain Crinnii, Ablsitof Dunkeld, and many with him; namely, nine times twenty heroes." This defeat seems for the time lo have completely extinguished Dncaii s party in Scotland, and it was not till nine years afterward that the second attempt was made. Malcolm, Duncan s "diest son, who had taken n-ftigc in Knglund, obtained from the F.uglish King the assistance of a Saxon nrmv, under the command of Kiwnrd, the Fart of Northumberland; but although Siward succeeded in wresting Uilhian from Maclieth, and in placing Malcolm as king over it, he was una hie lo obtain any further advantage, and MncU'th still retained the kingdom of Scotluud projier, while Malcolm ruled as king over l,ot libit, until, four yeur nflerwnnl, a more favorable opMirltinily occurred for renewing the enterprise. The king of the sou of Norway, in the course of one of (ho ntimeroun piratical exMilitiolis whii'h were still undertaken hy Ihe Norwegians, had arrived nt the Orkneys, and on linding the gnut slate uf pfiwer to which Thortinn had mined himself, he propose that they should join in undertaking and exis-diiiou having no less object than the subjugation of ihe kingdom of Kugland. To this proposal the enlcrprising Far I of Orkney at once ac-ivdcd, and the Iwo sea-kings departed for the soul li Willi tlie whole .Norwegian force which thev could collect. It was not destined, however, lluit they should ever land on the Fuglish coast, for (heir licet upM-arn lo have Uvn disjierM! and almost destroyed in a tcuiiCHt; Hitch wan proba-hlv the calamity which Mcll the exhibi tion, as (he words of (he Irish uniialisl, who alone Nnnrdit (he event, are simply : lint Und was against llicin in that al- i D that the king ofFngland had no si tuner become nwaix1 ol the ui-i-ottl ()f th(, threalcnnl invasion of his : (l,rr;inries. than he sent an KiudMi annv into Scotland lor tlm immune of over- thniwin the power of tlie Norwegians in that country, and of the establishment of Mai co tin Kenmorc on his father's throne; and in the abseinv of the Norwegian, the Saxon army was two powerful for the Gaelic force of M nebcin to withstand. The Fnglish aeconliiigly made themselves masters of the south of Scotland, nnd drove Macbeth or far north an I.umphanan, where hc was overtaken und slain in bat tle. Upon the death of Macbeth, Lulach.tho non of his cousin Oilcomgain, succeeded him; but after maintaining a struggle with Malcolm for the short space of three months, be was also defeated ami slain nt Kssc, in KtratlilOLic. In consequence of this defeat, Malcolm Kenmorc obtained, by the assistance of tlie J'.nltsb, quiet poiessicm of the throne of Scotland, which his own (mwer ami tak-ntu enabled him to preserve during the remainder of his life. lie was prevented, apparently by the return of Thorfinn, from attempting to regain any part of tho northern districts which the Norwegian carl lind sub jugated; and consequently bin terrttorteB consisted only ol tlinc southern districts wlncli AlaciH'th had acquired hy the defeat of his father Duncan. From tho accession of Malcolm Kenmorc to the death of Tliorlinn, which took place six yearn after, the state of Scotland remained unaltered, and the country exhibited the remarkable scctuclc of a Gaelic imputation, one-half of which olicycil tho rule of ft Norwegian earl, while the other half wns snUttied hy a prince of their own race at the head of a Saxon army. Thin narrative putn tlie idea of murder and usurpation entirely out of the question. Duncan wait oulv an adventurer himself, slain in battle by another, who, it now upcars, hail pretentions to the throne according to the Celtic mode of succession, by which the ablest collateml relative of the deceased king was always selected, passing over all hereditary claimants. Maclvth, as wc learn from Oeorgc Chalmers, who investigated bin history with great diligence, was hy birth mnor-mor, or chief of Cromarty and Koss, and by marringo enjoyed the same dignity over the more important region ofMoray, which in descrilsd hy Mr.Skciicanalmont a kingdom Itself, extending from sea to sea. ills wife, ( trough, the widow of the former maortiior of Morav, and whose progeny actually sucivedcd" in that character, was granddaughter ofa fomicrking of Scuts, why had been slain by Duncan's grandfather. MacMh was n sort of pacha or hereditary nherill", but, it will l observed, In a district over which Duncan only aimed at establishing7 a government, ho that he never was, proierly speaking, a subject of thai monarch, lie in rather to be considered as the representative of an-opH)site intercut in the country that of the northern Highlander anil the Norwegians; and his warfare with thi-gmciomi Duncan stvmn therefore to hive been as fair as any warfare of Ihnt npp ptct was. Taking' (lie poetical story in it details, the rencontre wilh the wltrliM shrinks into a very simple matter." The earlier writers s)icak of It ns nnW a rireirm, in which Macbeth imagined himself as addressed by the Three. Fates. The incideirt is thus related by honest Andrew Wyii-town of Loehleven, who wrote nlwut l.'M): , ' '' .. "e nlutit lie tlio'i!it in'nn 'Irwuitlii. Tint .itltinif ! wi WM! tlie tpnip At a nrtil nt hunting: ' Intil In Iritli limlurrvtimm-N tviip. lie lil011ullVlle lit- ,H r.i.UU1, . s lie wiliri'tf tnmeir hy ifBittf-ifl-r r i " Anil Iiiu'ih)i I Hi Itmiiuhi Ik ' ' ,; Tlirt-e f r,l i-ttra mam i"Vu to ht!.' , Thf tlMl lie he.ir.l v, iiiid hv, ' " 'l.n. vt'iehl' ttf' TliMie ort rnnilwi'hty I" ; , The Atlinr Viuunn mit Hiinur, " : 'tr Jli.n.v jmi iui I the 'Uuhk'.' . 'fh iMrdflieit ;iid, re(- the kniff." f An iii he I muni in Ivi" dronming. Thane, It will bu nnderstooi, fa a rVtxon form for tbuCocltc mao(iiior, anl li may further lie exnlaiucd, thai the, madniitir- ship of Moray is what i Iniplutl i;i thu ,tt,rm Thane of Owdor, the sen; of tln-t MorHTehief being at uMer, iu the c. utilvT 4lf Nairn, Wo o ei)iiy believiahai thc-l ttt Nn"imn. Wo rn uki(r hp iieu.lbai i ho I ,'(., U(. uuav Lu a fnuiwl.Li .ut in truth - lniJl . LK'.IJ 10 H'MoUl t :.IUIJly tlfcfl fimong the mofives of i;icat actions in that and subsequent ages, Hut this admission certainly tixcsiio culpability uhhi MaeU'th. The story has, however, Ihvii gn-ally exaggeratnl in the course if time; and, for one thing, the whole portion of it n-ferring to llanqtio Is n fiction. Then-was no such person; then-fore lie never was murdered. And at tlie time when hc is represented as learning that he wan to he the progenitor of ihe house of Stuart, the actual ami's tor of that family was living in Normandy, under (he assumed name of Filallan, not even dreaming of possesning a foot of hind in llritniu. The death of Duncan, instead of a private murderj was, we have seen, the overthrow of n rival in battle. The scene of this light is not precisely known. The old chronicles say it look place nt Ilnthgo-wanan, which Oeorge Chalmers fixes near Flgin; but it was as probably near Inverness, when there actually is a cairn, or heap of stones, called Clacha Doiia'uliie (that is, Duncan's t'airni, implying proh-ablv the scrim of his death. The whole slory of the reception of I tunc an by Mac-) Is th at his castle, the killing of Ihe king ! duriinr the night, and the concealment ol (he murder by the slaughter of the two servants, which Shakespeare derived from llolliushed, is n transposition from n different iktukI of history, lieing u recital of the actual circumstances attending the death of a King Dull, in the catle of Fnrnn, about a century Is fon- the governor of the castle lieing the murderer. Thus the gn-atcsl slain of nil which n-sts on the memory of Miicls-th, vanishes in a moment. That such itains should have . everattuchiil to ihe memory of tin inno cent man, may en-ate surprise; but we should reincinlK'r that he was immediately succeeded by a hostile dynasty, w hose interest it would lie (o blacken him an much as possible, and whom Writers would of course ledisMiscd to Hatter by wiving all the evil they could of (he deccn'd monarch.This influence, Itowiver, has not been able lo suppress the fact (hat MaeU th wan a successful ruler, and, for (he greater part of his n-igtt, cxtrenielv popular. Ituchamin drscrils.- him nn "a man of penetrating genius, of tin exalted spirit, anil delighting in gmil atlairs," IVrhaiw this character was parity owing to a set of wise laws which he was then lieltevt-d to have framed, but the authenticity of which has long lieen given up, Yet that ho was sagacious ruler lor his time, there is no (outit, it is curious that theouly certain ilneumeu'. priM'eitliug from thin suiiixisi-d murderer and his "lit ndqtieen," should Is' a deed in w hich thev are associated in conferring a nimi of territory uhui the K-au'l'ul Culden clergy of Loi lileven. ' Such, however, in the progress of erntr, that (line humlnsl years huer, n priest of this very establishment, probably deriving his support in part from the gill of Macbeth, gravely n-conls n story which makes out (he devil lo have Ihvii (he natural father of that prince. The circumstances attending the conclusion of Maclicth's enn-cr a re given by Shakespeare, as he found them In the chnuiicles. The slory of the rearing ofa castle on Duiis'iiium Hill, the (light of MucdiiH', and slaughter of his faintly, (he conservation of Macdiitl wilh Maleidm in Fu gland, Ihe march of ihe Fnglish army lo liimam, (he moving wosl, and the attack on DiiiiMiimin, an' all slatui by Andrew Wyniown, who, however, n-pn-seiits Maclieth as n-trcaling to the north, and l-iiig slain at Lumplutnan, inAlei-dccu-shire, which, (hen- can Ih no doubt, was the true iivne of bin death. Wyntown s leaks of MacU'th an one w ho 4 III fullfoll fl. il- llil.l uti .ll f . That is, had great faith In fantastic urr-slilions. And he deserilies him ns at the Inst defying the knight by whom he was assailed: and hearing n charmed life, he wan iiwiiml that no man Isiru of a woman could harm him, to which the assailant makes the answer which ShakciM-nrc puis into the mouth of Mncdull. It must U admitted that all these particular, which Sli;ikes(s-im has lixeil in our minds like the tenets of a creed, nre at the best doubtful. It is, however, ai-ceilaineit Unit .MacU'th met his enemies lu n ylv:i battle near Dun- slnnan, 9 here 'O bort, the son of Stwnrd, fell, but 4-hich ru4cd in the defeat of the Scottish moum'lc who then withdrew northward, .f 1 Tho war wn flEfflractod about two years. ' but at length emliitl in the overthrow ami death of Macbot ft I December 5, WVi), at Lnuiplmnan, wiui e a son of his also fell. Mucbcth's cairn, j memorial of his fall, is still seen about it mile from Lumphuuau kirk, on the bm , of a hill: a few miles northward in if mige stone, which the country people In ieve to mark the siot where tho son wu ' slain. Fven the hint defeat did iiotcitHjely destroy the streitL'th which rallied nAind Macbeth; for Ins step-son, Lulach yhy birth maormor of Moray h was madijrkiiig in his stead, and reigned for foufrmonlhs. This prince fell, April, 10:I7,' r Ksse, in Strnthbogie, in a battle, whiclifrnally gave the crown lo Malcolm Dunisk're. Such in the real') istory of Macbeth. In- J hiring antifuariW lind in him merely a lighhind chief contending for, anil temporarily holding, empire on the strength of the ancient Ceuic right of succession, and representing (he Highland or Celtic portion of tho people against similar ad-venlurera, who r'(rmnUd the I)wland interests, and anugliidi mode of succession. He was, 30 r bis dav and generation, a wise nnd gtjjd king; Itut he failed to maintain his ground, ami, like other representatives of iiippreMcd systems, he has been traduced. tj Here, however, good has most assuret)lyp""ne out of evil ; for from these obscurelfcaluninien and ridiculous mnnkili.fahkI gen iih has ultimately formed ngrand talc of human pasnion, which must remainilo evoke sublimek-u-sationn of pity and rror for all time. IJTEK.vlV (iOSSlP I.. lVrcy Fitrget.ild has written the "Life and Advcnttrtvs of Alexamler D11-mas," which will slifirtly lie published in Kugland and rcpufckjthcd here. Kliskin ban ordi i! the newctUliou of his work to bcbotful in rich purple calf. with gilt edges, anfrhot a single copy will be allowed to gi) o4t in any other sh;ie. The l.lppineirttty'H in -mini, paid $S0"O for advance sheets oJl''orsters "Dickens," thus obtaining itovijr the Applelons'n hid of fy'MM. They buA oflcred lll,Hiitl fur ailvance sheets of Hihvor's new nowel, Mrs. Tjeonowen's ptorile pupil in Siam was n young mother? v ho was xo grateful for being taught, (onl, nnd so delighted with nailing fiu'le. Turn's Cabin, that in ulllicr after lettcnrVi her governess she signed herself ''Ilarii'et Iteecher Stowe." There are no feir than Z'-V1 H)litical journals pHldrsetl im the Swiss Republic. Of, these, out only imprinted in KuglMi, agiilftitt l71i appenrl,ig in ttcrman, 'J in Itnliiuij 4-t in French, and f in the llrtiuticC lit iloct. I'.vide these there are 1 rO other periodh'ur.Viiblicatious. Tho private librnfof the late Marquis tie Moraiitp, rectory T the I'niversity of Madrid, which, wuh Vntly sold, conisled of tjtiu hund-d aint irenty thousand vol-timet, of which a lar numU'r were very rare and valuable, r Ote of them onif lie-longing to tlm l'Opef and otlnT ljiropcan intletitato. ;:' - ' Jean InffflftW, M 1b now -II years old, is th'1- daughter of C 'mntry banker, nnd, in money iiwtjtufsf ijuicely provideil for. Slio lives In. great, 'irtinemi'tit, nnd her uuiet ljftnii life Let 1ft of devoteil nuriiv jyniid abiTi'l'iiding chiirlif1: Most of the pro- (f-iot her bik flncvoted to U'lievo-leid -purosei. Tiie- Turkish decrement reivntly or- tiewd al i-Ihi tA-lfcitl tvd all im ropei- i'f. iHrateil works to tie iilHOAted. bul K ill lie local, authorities tlvi(o what cniatv. ndvr thin definition. SVb reini.m sor it vi Uiush enlitthtened cntKmcn doif i$i tlnte 411 confiscating M?i"l -O'l, M 1 1 HI ' -' M0isirnil0 l American inissioiiai,-, a iai,J-. and other wmhs equally innocuous. The Kev. W. .1. Loflie is preparing n volume called " A Cciilliry of Jtibh-s; or, Ihe Authorized Yetvion front ltll to 1711," which will comiirlse a coiuph le bibliographical list of upwards of :t-'-U editions of the llihle and Testament of the Authoriwd 'ersion printed Infore 1711. An Apsiidix will contain a list of the llihles of this tninslation in the Hritish Museum, (he Itodleian Library, the col-, lection of Mr. Fry, thiwo nanuil by l-ea Wilson, and tho in a few smaller collections, ! The American Kcglstcr, publiliiHl weekly in l'aris, Fininv, is the best of the numerous journals which have from time In lime npH-urvd for the hem-lit of the traveling public. It contains a list of the Americans in Furoiewith their addresses, n variety of advertisements of mjkm'ihI service to American tourists, and n well-digested com pita (ion of American and general news. Mr. l!yan, the editor, has long lsvn connected with the New tork pn-ss and knows how to make anhden-st-ing and valuable p:q r. The I'niversity I'ublishiug Conipauy of New York will soon issue two remarkable works. The first is a translation into Fnglish, for circulating in this country, of the Japanese book by Mr. Mori, of the legation, upon "Life nnd I'e-oiirces in America." Ihe ,lai;ilie edition is also printed hen-, and is nlnady in the binder's hands. The other, entitled "The Japanese in Aim-rica,' is n full account of (Im Chinese Finbiissy, by Mr. Charles Laiiman, with a collection of remarkable essays written by Ihe Japamsv students in (his country, In the London Academy of February l-'ilh, Matthew Arnold, irilicising lb-nan and scotling faintlv nt the Yankees, suvs that Kenan can not la- surpassed as n critic hv tiertuiiny or any other country, and ndils; "Wc have hist been muling an American e--nvi-t, Mr. Higu'insoii, who snys that the l iiitiil States tin- lo evolve a tvjie of litenu v lahnt sus rinr to niiy (lung yet nvii in Ihe mother country; nnd this, perhaps, win it it is ready, will Is-something to siiijui e us. llul, taking things ns they tmw nn1, where shall we lind ii living writer whoso habitually an M. Kenan moves mining questions of the dceiK-sl intcn-l, presents them sotiltract-ively, dicuscs them with so much fecl-1 ing, insight, and felicity?" During (he hist year a large area of (he Temple of Diana, tit Fphestis, has Is-en cleared to the pavement, and various on-hitcctunil marbles have b,eti fntind. in on' or less mutilattd. The scale of an-hitcctiin- is coin-sal, exci-ling, It is Is- Ih-Visl, in pnqiorlions (he cclehratiil Temple of Jupiter OlvtnpiH, nt Athens, the temple at l(raii(-liid:e,aud all oilier extant examples of Oreek architecture. Oil one I of the stones is n relief representing Hercules struggling with a draped fentale figure, and on another fragment of a drum an- the lower halves of some m-alM and standing female tk'iires. Thin sculpture In very hold mid elliclive ns decora lion, but it is said lo want I he charm and fresh ness ot Ihe friew ol ihe Parthenon. LtlxT. D , late of the regular army, when nt Washington lust fall, under somewhat Hi'tiliar eirciimslaiiees, wasin-troduivd to a young lady at sumo reception. After some ordinary remarks upon commonplace topics, (be htdy said; "t hit-city is very full of your nrmy gentlemen at present; may I a-k yon if ymt an- le i-e on leave?" "1 am iml," inisHin-d D.; "lieneral HancN-k denireil to have aJx-r-sonal interview with me iisu important business, and pn-vnihil upon the Adjutant lieneral lo onler me here forthepurpoM.'' An Captain D. was oiuv heiinl to n-ioark, "exactly." The lieneral saw poor D., and he enten-il Uhhi civil nrsiiits under the provisions ol' the lute army bill in eonw-iiiiciice, D. wns something of a wil, loo, hen askeil by the liisieling ntlicer, "What small arm, Mr. D., do you consider Ust adapted to ihe colored soldier V" "liaxnrs," proiupliv answered D, Why is a lady fainting like a ship with a man overlmard ? liecaitsc she ought to nc orougin in as soon as possible. WASHINGTON LKTTKKS. From Our Own Correspondent.! Washington, March 28, 1872. If wc were permitted (o name the parties to the following described interviews, it would lie discovered that our corrc-sHindent has written the plain and unvarnished private opinion nn expressed to him for this purjiose, hy two of the most eminent men in the K'tuocratic party. A private note assures us that the interviews ure genuine, and the sentiments correctly reported, (hough our correspondent Is threatened with aboriginal treatment if hc discloses the names of the interviewed. Ko. Statu JuntNAi.. This great Ifcinocmlic party, which has occupied so much of the attention of the American public for some years past, is seriously "tore tip in its mind" just at the present juncture. Il thinks it has n victory jnt in lis grasp, but how to avail itself of the opportunity Is the one thing in the way. on can no more get one-lhird of the IViitoerutie party to agree as to policy with the other two-thirds than you can get anyone of that devoted hand ever to confess (hat all or any of the results of tho late war ore tN-riiittiieiit, "constitutional" or lasting, llrief, but iointed interviews, had recently with some of (he most prominent of (he Democratic leaders of to-day, develop the fact that there in no more chance of that party thus uniting (ban there is of oil and water mixing. They ditll-r so, as to "how lo do it," while they nil claim it can be done. Let us give tlie substance of two of lliese interviews suniplen of all the rest. No. 1 we will say (and tell the truth) was a soldier in the late war. Hen-pre-sentn about one-third of his party "never was a copi-erhead mvself," l.e says, "but couldn't see the wisdom of the recon-stmetion policy adopted by Ihe Itepubli-ciins, ami so I 'IlopiK-d.' " "How do things look?" "Well, it's hard lo tell, I'olitics arc in a chaotic condition. 'I' hen' in no telling which way thccnt'll jump." "So you can't sec anything nliem! for the Democracy? You don't indulge in any dreams of success?" "Now see here, young man, there Is no use of your going off half cocked in that way! Nobody said that there is no hoie for us fellows. To say the very least vou must admit that our side of ih wheel must come up some day. I said things Wen' in a chaotic condition. And (hat is so, too. lint still I think our chances unvJ better than they ever were la-fore. You see, it's like this: Kverylmdy concedes that there is enough opiositioii to (irant to lK'iit him if it can only lie united you don't? Well you don't count. You "are a dam m-itolUce anyhow. Fverybisly concedes that lirutit can be liealen if only the elements of opHisitiou can he united against him. Can they lie united ? That's the question. And I believe they can. Yoti know that this Democratic party of ours has U-en so lammed around, and wal-lopjied anil beaten, nmi used up generally, (hat it's had the starch prettv Wfll taken out of it. These old oopR'rfiead fellows arv K'giuning to learn something, They thought first after the war was'over that there wan bound to be a great revulsion in popular feeling, and they would rido into nllice on the top of n great wave. Hut they were mistaken. She didn't revulse worth speaking of. And we have had several chances since that time, but those BtifT-nocked cusses wouldn't sou the point. Ihey wouldii t go nt It right. Your fellows would be all divided and lorn up your forces nil scattered, and in um st--fvit Km w gi wmppvJ. And we saw nil these rbances, nnd for n little while it would look as though we wen- aUnt lo take the reins. We f -lions who had never lieen dyed-in -the-wool, who had hivu war I Vmocrat, saw (hat our chance for victory lay in our uniting on aomo moderate man some war man, either one who had been n soldier or one who had not at leant cursed the soldiers. We fell that with such a man we could give you a lively tussle! And for a while these old butternuts would ngn-e with us or seem lo Ihey would Hot object. Ami jllst as everything seemed a ripening for our ghiry,thy blamed old fools would straight en up their hacks ami insist on nominating one of (heir own memliers. Of euiirse we would fail till doomsday by nursuinir such a policy as (hat. You couldn't cram mu-U a man down tho people's throats. And so you fellows would unite again, and wc would get wullopHil again. "Well, as I nay, we have got the starch pn-lly well out of I host- fellows now. I'hcy know ihey can't make it win long an it look thciu to learn il. And thut they have finally learned it in Ihe one great reason why I think things look better for us. We can unile with the Lilieral Republicans, and tuipjiort whoever they nnmiunte at Cincinnati, you see, and bust you fellows wide oh-u. That ain't elegant, but it's highly descriptive!" " Then you will support the man nominated by iho LiU-ral Republicans, will you ? All go in no division llourlion, I'lissiuu and nil ?" "Of course we will! Not a bit of doubt about that. Well, you know that in if they nominate the right sort ofa mnn.von know." "Oh !" "Yes, and they will do Ihnt of course." "Who, now for instance, would lie the right sort of a man ?" "Well, I'll tell vou who they will nominate. That's liiarle Francin Adams. He In the very brnl man in tho world. .ud ihey il nominate hini ihey know their business. Then they'll put some such man an Hendricks or Ikiolittle on for ice I rcsldeu,. DtMililllo would Ihj the Vst; he Mood nil right during the war mid I lendrickn didn't. Tom's a mighty good fellow, though, and if it could lie done, I'd ralher sec him for the fust phuv, and nt leiisl for Ihe second, Itut il wo are going to do il at nil, we must go tlie whole hog." "Are you sun? ihey will nominate Adams, and that your parly will support him V" "Certainly. It's us plain as the nose on your face and that's putting it strong, ain't il ? You've got u mighty plain nse. You hi Adams wan out of Iho eouniry iluriiiir all these miuatible. He wnn n-l- resenting the I'niled States nhmad, nnd doing it very creditably, lie never did unything n-iunrkahlv brilliant, but he didn't make ninny midakes, And lieing out of ihe country, not mixed up wilh all mir quarrels hele, he hasn't made enemies on either side. He Would lie welt on our stomachs, and would not Kuikc you fellows sick. We could nil swallow him. And then his father and his grandfather In-fore him were Presidents. That would In lp more I ban you would think for. "e an-tierce deiiKK rats in thin coiinirv and all that sort of thing and ptcteud We ibili'l believe ill blood, volt know but We 1 believe in it. It is something for n man lo know that his grandfather wasn't hung for shn p thieving, II it is of no oMu-r use, ii puts him on bin good ls havtor. "Yes, I Kiu-ss Unit's so. Well, have you anything more to olli r ,'" " "No, You an-a whipisil coiumunilv, though. Yoil can mi that down nn.-fl-tled tint in, if them- old llmirbmis, as voll call them, don't still" n up, and 1 lurdly think liny will. They have liecn whipped loo of i en (o enjoy it any nion" No. n-prcseuted the two-thirds. He wits not in the annv, although he intulo. war speeches till 'li-, and then turned his color. He lives in a Kmucralie district nnd ban Iktii In Comm for the last twelve years. Yoil will obscive he goes with No. 1 for home distance and then he diverges. "Whit ii e ing lo happen? Hani to set'".' The fact is tint ("dilies an' 111 a chaotic conditio!) just now." It is a remarkable fact that if you can get a Democrat to talk at all on Kiliticn he uiens out with tho last sentence or its equivalent. It may lie tho result of some diabolical conspiracy to kill the iieujde ofl' with the monotony of the thing. Who knows? And the next sentence to come is also in variably used. "Itut there is one thing quite evident. If all the element! against (irant could only bo united he could be beaten, easily." "Can they be united ?" "That in the question. I believe they can, though. A great deal deRnd on the action of the Lilwral Republicans at their Cincinnati Convention. If they put the right man in nomination our party would support him, and thus defeat Grant." "Itayou think there are enough Liberal Republicans, ns you call them, to amount to anything .' Uh yen. mere droelcy, anil Sumner, and Sebum, and Tipton, mid Jlal- steud, nnd Ii. Oratz Urown, and , oh yes, there are plenty of them." "Who can they nominate lo command the siiport of your party ?" "It don't make much difference who. Any good, stNiure man will do." "Charles l raticis Adams?" "Oh. not The greatest mistake that seems to threaten us is that some such nmu will he nominated, Adams will never do. Why, who is he? Whut has he ever done? He was at St. James dur ing a long term of years, but he never did anything of any great merit. He wan a respectable old mummy sort of a fellow, and did very well as an unobtrusive lay tigure. Rut ho is no statesman. Ihe country has never had evidence of his lie ing possessed of anvnliililv more than any common man. Ho is not to be thoinriit of. "Itut a great many of your people are thinking of him." "If they ure.they are wasting their time. The Democratic party will never support turn, va hy( no t com as n tisii the .u- nms family was never popular. They never held any place in the hearts of the iKHiple. The Liberal Republican move ment won't nniount to anything at all if they nominate such a man as Adams." "Who is the man, then ?" "Why, I'll tell you. Tom Hendricknis the man. They will nominate him if they are wise; nnd of course he will command the full strength of our party. He is a statesman, strong in bin convictions, but never excessively violent. And he is popular." "How alio ut Judge Davis?" "Well, he would muko a tolerably good man. After Hendricks probably the best wc could get. He is a good Judge, and then you know that for twenty-live years he was tho intimate friend of Abraham1 Lincoln," (And this is a recommendation in Democratic eyes lo-dny. Verily, times change!) "Hut then there is no use going outside our own party for ft candidate.""You don't think then that Sumner fc Trumbull would do?" "Certainly not. Wo don't supoe our jieopte are such fools as to vote for men who have oeeu (heir bitter enemies for years. Of course iiott Rut there is no danger of (heir choosing a man of that fttripc. They know that they -must have an equivalent for our three million vote, or wo won't trade. Oh! no. If they propose to nominate anyone who has in the past made himself obnoxious to the Detti-otTatic party, they might as well subside. We would rather bo beaten again. And that's why 1 think our chances for success are good. If they nominate such a man n Sumner, they divide your party, and we can take advantage of that division and elect our own man. White if they nominate such a man a Hendricks wc , will unite with them and thusbeattira, i.1' Now tlieae ure tWn ioto-r j IVmocralic n'prcM'ittflllre men, high in tho parly, and who could only be prevailed upon to talk when they wen-assured that what Ihey said should not U published with their names attached. Ami I hey certainly confirm our statement, made in the outset, that iho llemocratic jiarty is "tore up in its mind." The n-siilt is plainly to le seen. Two-thirds of the party believe that the long looked for revulsion has come, and that they can nominate their own man, n reliabio old "copjierhead," and elect htm. And they will nominate such n man, and the other thin! will come in at the bidding of tho majority. Tho Cincinnati Sick Republican Convention may labor mightily; It will nring lortn uothing to suit the I euiocracy unless It nominates a Ik'tnncratnf ye olden kind. If Ihey nominate any Republican, or such n man ns Judge Davis, the Ikunocracy will take it as an evidence of the weakness and division of the Republican jmrty.and will nominate with a view to winning, and that without conceding a point. And any ono who is at all conversant with Dcmiicratic tactics, as illustrate! by their history, can see what they are at They paw around (irceley, and thmw up (he dirt aboul Sumner, and nrnise Trum bull, and publish long column of euloeiiim of Davis. They only wish, and intend by nil this, toierstiade n portion of (he Kcpiihlicun party Hint they win unite on some such man an the Cincinnati Convention mnv choose, secure his nomination by thin means, and then, having assured a division, ns thev upiosc, in Republican ranks, take advantage of it to elect a K'tnoerat. Tho programme Is plain enough, and sutlicu ntly child-like to be apparent lo all. i knpennis, Washington, March 2!, 1872. It is conceded that Mr. Sumner's Intent effort is n titling eap-slono or finish to the small history which he ha made in the past few months as a disappointed, embittered man, who conceiving a hatred for another has pursued that other with revengeful intent, and, Wing blinded by his own malice, with disastrous result tohim- self, lie has ls-cn no anxious, to hurt him whom he cho-c lo consider lit adversary. thai he Ins not looked V-fore ho leaped, nor has ho regarded tho weapon which bin hand found to use. And a one wound after another has resulted fmni hi hasty can-lessiiesn in choosing means to the end, hi exasperation apK-ars to have grown greater and lo have driven hiui still further into tho iDiiim is.i ion of more rashness. The country ha lieen loth to believe of Mr. Sumner that he haa changed from that which he onoe was to bo the companion and chosen leader of a na-t iou'sscuiidal-monger and common scold. Hut It is gradually being fon-ed lo this conclusion and driven to lie) ieve against its wishes and ho. It is melaucholly to look upon n downfall so great, and to contemplate the ruins of that whiidi was once so noble. One ensts about for the causes of the disaster, and is fain in common charily to annign physical decay and weakness a the chief one. Kven those new found friends and champions of Mr. Sumner, the I emoeracy, can find no well grounded excuse for that gentleman's singular conduct More the I Seliute committee lo investigate the sale of j arms to Remington. They feel thai the position he there assumed is so inconjisi-ent with his eagerness to have sucli a com in it tee iipHiintcdt that it throws him ok-ii (o so grave suspicion (hat they cannot consent to Iw involved in theentaugle-ment he has woven for himself. Resides, they, in common wilh ihe mas of the HHip1e generally, do hoi precisely understand how he proMiscs (o make his position tenable. He finds few to indorse him in the singular line of defense he has chosen to pursue. Mr. Sumner has lsvn verv anxious, ap parently, to have his charges, so persistently siiHtaiiunl by him in the Senate, thoroughly investigated. He has cried aloud and spun-d not, In season and out id' season ho has insisted upon investigation. And vet when ho i summoned fore the committee to Usiify of that w bich he has ehanred. he stands mute, ami refuses lo t H-ak, upon n quibble of Ihe law a petty technicality which he makes his defense. He has made charges of the gravest character against the Administration, implicating some of tho highest ollicers of the government. Ho is asked to give tho names ot the witnesses upon whom he relic to prove these things. And he stands mute. He says hc has no names of witnesses to give. He nuikes a charge against his government that it has violated one of Ihe rules of international law. When asked by the committee, which ho caused to be created to investigate this charge, what proof ho has (hat the ottenno lias U-en committed, he refuses to testify save to that which idle rumor has carried to his ears. He will not give (he information that will bring anything more tangible than these rumors before the committee. The only light ho shells upon the matter merely develop tho lact that ho has mane these charges without first satisfying himself that they had any foundation whatever. . I le merely show that in his eagerness to hurt Grant ho has jumped at a shadowy suspicion, and that without any care to see that it had any grounds in luct. And his reason for ho doing he says is that the committee is not constituted in accordance with the usages of parliamentary law. The truth lieing that he ha nothing to testify to, and dread the exjiosure of the fact that to satisiy his own jwlty malice he lias os-sibly involved the good name of his Gov ernment. If ho hud the damaging revelations to make that he has pmfessed lo have had, he would have quickly produced them, Ho would not have taken his stand upon an inlinitcssimal quibble on an obscure legal point. He knows that thin investigation is made in public. That the representative of the press nre present always, and eager to catch anything which may go to iimve his charges. He knows. as everybody knows, that the action of the committee with regard to the matter would be of small moment. That if the committee should ever go so fur as to de cide against the evidence, and in the face ol it, there is another committee, an impartial one, which is Ihe great public, which would weigh tho evidence, and give a venlict in accordance with the facts adduced. That hi exoniire of criminal wrong doing would be no less cllcetive because a committee of Investigation might, through I pnrliality, fail to do its duty. Thin is the day when everything of public interest is published, The development of high ! crimes, an violations of international law, is of public interest, and no power on earth would prevent the publication thereof in all it damnable details. And ! ho knows that in such cane no punishment would be Bwifler nor more severe than that which would le visited upon the offender by tho public which can nt all events he trusted to make up on impartial verdict. Charles Sumner made these grave charges, In his place in the United Stales Senate, when bound by the obligation i' his sacred oath ns a United State Senator, and pledged to honorable, patriotic eo0uct by the rcconl of his life. I'lie country demanded that hc sustain these charge the committee of Investigation did not stand alone in asking for the proofs. The country had a right to demand this. Itut Mr. Sumner declines to give it. lie is insolent and insullbrnbly overbearing in his conduct toward the committee, Hc i no less insolent and overbearing towani the country. Ho takes the position thai he ha in his power to reveal wrong-doing nnd illegal action on the part of the officers of theOovcrnment, but that he will not reveal these things because he is hot asked in tho mani)er which lie deem proK-r. That is, he may keep that within himself which (he good of tho nation demands should be revcaletL because il doe not suit him to reveal ii: Ue has bean summoawl by-llie- yncde- iakajuuiJi(A wuusatfjun,"; Mat Vur. ernmetit, (hm! Im refusw to testif, and in consequently guilty of contempt. This i what it amount to, and it is ft mntter of national disgrace. Not that Sumner wished to disgrace his country in tho eyes of the whole civilized world, by casting a taint of infamy upon its good name. Nobody thinks that he desired to do that. Rut lie did desire to injure the President. Hc did desire to blot the fair fnmo of one whom he le-lievcs lo 1st his enemy. He did wi-di to compass the overthrow of one man, lo gratify hi own malicious revenge. Rut to do this he has not hesitated to cant the taint of infinity upon the good name of his country. To do tin he ha not hes itated to imicril the lieacc and welfare of his country. Aim nit upon rumors nun idle gossip which lie himself acknowledges fee Is unalilc to sulistanliate. No more a statesman, no longer a patriot, but Charles hiiuiuer the oacktiiting, malevolent gi-ssip ami niMchicl maker I Y'ou statist in a paragraph on the re- (Kirtof the Ku-Klux committee tho other day, that six volumes of the evidence hail been published. Jimre volume ol lrom six to seven bund ml pages each, arc found inadequate lo chronicle n small part of tho doing of this Southern wing of the Democratic party. 11 1 a source ol grealsntisiaclion to the Icnincracy, and their present nllles, tin-sick Republicans, to know that a great many investigations are going forwanl today, into the conduct of various Government official. They advert to it frequently, and dwell upon tho fact with great relish. They are evidently highly delighted at this condition of things. The Republican parly is also well satisfied that the men whom it ha placed in office shall be investigated in the most thorough manner, and their official conduct sub. jocted to tho most senn-hing scrutiny. ICvcryliodv is happy again, and wc here havo anotlier evidence of (bo rapid approach of the millennial time, Ono reason why Ihe iVmocrncy nnd (ho Sick lU'pnhlicuns rejoice at thin state of things is, lecause they imagine somehow that il proves, to some extent, that the Administration is dishonest nnd guilty of criminality of various sort. To reach this Ihey use, of course, a very peculiar sori 01 logic a Kino which nan out josi come into anv shape of general approval. and which may lieeome fashionable some dar strange things have occurred before. I Ait in rell ect upon the onler of thing which will result from the universal adoption of a rule which will condemn on mere suspicion, without wailing for evidence. They say it is a poor rule that won't work both way. Now, il is shrewdly suspected that in the ranks of the Sick Republican may be found various soreheads who have failed to secure nil the patronage ihey coveted ; (lint many have oincd Ihe movement merely lo gratify 'the smallest motive of malice growing out of blighted iiuimH in a mercenary sort of way. Sumner has not lieen worshiping and deferred to in that sooth iiur si vie so essential lo hi huppinesM. Trumbull's worthless son was not apiHi'uiUsl assessor ol a western lerntory. rvinim has not had court paid to him as a 1'rovidenliul disiicnsution for tho healing of our woe nnd the perfecting and caret if our Repub lican torm oi tiovernincnt. i niton ami Lnnn have nothing else to do hint now. (irosvenor, the cashiered army officer, is of couno an Isbnim-Uie. Greeley didn't gel that K)slotlieo some time ago, nnd tho present Administration mis tailed to und in him those qualities which would justify il in making him postmaster nt l'odunk". Kx-S'iuilor Ron and Fowler have hot relished the privacy to which their double-dealing and weakness in time past ha justly consigned them. II tils tend, it is intimated, hasn't received hi price yet, and 1 Vacon Smith is a truly good man ! ! All Ihesc things are suspected, intimated, hinted at, insinuated alsiut in public iWl in private. In allcases the motivM of the Sick Republican have lieen impugned. Shall we apply the rule? Shall wo Inko these gentlemen nt their own standard? Shall we say they nre thus guiltv in manner and form charred? It would lie niueli on 1 Vacon Smith ! The people, fortunately, lake ft dilleront view otthi mtilter. They see invest iga thins ordered dav after dav. Thev see an administration maligned and abused as no administration since tlie days of Wash-ton ever wan before. Thev see the malev olence of tho opjtfifdtinn to the administration so great and so powerful that it actually ban power to besmirch the characters of ihose holding high places in ine uoVerniiiL-iit, ami Iheysee these olh-ciaht courting and inviting these investigations to cheek, if possible, thisunpar-alh-lled wholesale lying for jsilit'ical pur- courts investigations of nil kinds, only asking that they may be thorough unil searching, They sec Simmer nnd Dain fye Gods, what an assorted pair!) not only failing to Htistain their charges in any part thereof, but trvinif to evade tlm n.-cotsitv fnrniii- laining them by all manner of sfiystering tricks known to the Toombs lawyers grade of jHiliticians! Thev nee Schuns in like milliner dealing doubly and testifying in a wav that is dark to that which lie once promised lie would makeclear as Ihe noonday nun, and finally likewise confessing that he hits not and never had ft scintilla of proof that bis assertions so freely and loudly made, had any truth whatever in them. They see Greeley and lleid in like manner exposed in their career as scandal monger. They see them both confessing that they know nothing nt nil of the truth of the charges they so blatantly brought forward. They remark il us n coincidence worthy of note, thut in no case have the chief instigators of the various investigation now going forward and which have been had, failed to testify to the remarkable fact that they knew nothing lieyoinl rumors and the gossip of scandal mongers to support their assertion. The jieople see nn Administration so strong (as it should lie) in its consciousness of its own purity that it throw open everything and defies the closest examination into its acts and intentions. I'i:ndenn'1i. MUSICAL AM) DRAMATIC UOHMI'. Kdwin Forrest met with unprecedented success in his recent Southern lour. In Texas he drew immense audience ut a ticket. There were In 170 eighty-six Italian oK-rutic companies performing in Italy, and eighty-six, in 17I, while this year there are ninety-one. Mr. Feebler began hi! engagement ut (he Iondou Adelphi, on Saturday, March 2, n 7 hi IMm. He was lo act twenty-four nights. Mr. Raphael Felix intends to bring out Sardou' "Rabagas" in lmdon, ut the theater for French plavs which he conducts in that city. Sue' "Wandering Jew," at the l'aris Cluitelet, proves abundantly remunerative, Tim first seventy iierformanivs of thin piece took in SiiO.OOU. Tlie Grand Theater de Furls lias passed into (he hands of M. Mnndol, formerly director of the Theater Rnini,and will rc-ope" with a drama, entitled "Marceau; ou,le Fn Cants do la Republiqiie." Mr. Fechter'snew theater will not om?ii, it is now said, until fall. No one known much nlxiut his company beyond the fact that it will lie mainly Fnglish. The work is progressing on the unique box on Fourteenth street, but it will not Ik finished for some time yet. Mr. Feehtor will remain abroad until late in tho summer. Mr. Augiistin Daly has secured the Icufo of the Grand Opera House for live years, with the privilege of renewal at the expiration of that time, and he proposes making it the Forte St. Martin Theater of NK'ork. Thin will not interfere with the management of the Fifth Avenue residence of the Luliau King and court in Rome, a eorresHindent lrom that city mentions that "more theaters nre open, and managers nre no longer forced to rename their plays nnd oH-rns, nnd some-limes to Kpoil them by ridiculous alterations before, their ierforiiiaiioc is allowed.'' The Opera House nt llrusm-Is since the close of I'anre's engagement has been miserably attended. In fact things have got to such a pitch that the female Ixix oiH'iiers, if the Guide Musical is to be implicitly trusted, nre so alarmed thai (hey liuve asked tho manager to allow their husbands to accompany them in their H-regrinations through the lonely lobbies and corridors, A magnificent piano, which possesses a history, is shortly to be sold nt miction at Met;.. The instrument was manufactured for the l'riucc Imperial of France bv the piano manufacturer of that country, and during the war fell into the hands 'of the I'rus-ians. It was thought thut the Km-pcror William would have restored it lo its youthful owner; but, more business- . like, it seems that ho has determined to put it up at auction for what it will fetch. The new I'ortc Saint Martin Theater in to lie built of the edifice destroyed by the Communists, and tho works havo already commenced. The facade will bo supported by eight enormous columns, the col-onade being preceded by ft kind of terrace, surmounted hy a stone balustrade. The vestibule will Iw spacious, nnd a double broad staircase will lead (o (he first balcony, four other flight conducting from the first tie- to the upper galleries. The celebrated pianist Thai berg has left .me of the richest and most varied cvnteetion of autograph musical scores extanl. It contain orchestral scores and manuscript of all sorts by J. S. Itaeh, Handel, Haydn, Moiart, Cherubini, Wchcr, Rossini, Belli ui, Mendelssohn, nnd other renowned composers. It in the intention of Mdme. Thai berg to dispose of them by sale, and to devote the amount realised to some public charily, her agents being MM. IVtkcii and Uochalt, librarians.The death of Herr ilguniil Davison, the celebrated I'riissjan tragedian, in.n loss to histrionic art. He was one of the most o we r ful, original nnd conscientious nctors on the German stage. Hi crforuniifc of Maclicth, Othello, and other Slink-sS!arinii characters, were entitled to rank ns creations. In Meohistophele he was not less good, and in tho ch1ssic.1l (vw-iot'iv of Germany ho leaves scureely an equal. Herr Davison was in his lifty-lifth year. ( loiinod's Ronton und Juliet, which was n deplorable failure when pnsluccd In this eouniry, has met with a better fate in Russia. Adeliua 1'alli seems to have had the genius lo give it vitality, n Nilsson did to Thomas' Hamlet. The ojiera was recently ierformed at St. I'otersburg in presence of the C.ar and ihe Fm press nnd an immense audience, and was npplnmled lo the who. Arditi let I the orchestra. Nicolini, Gruiiuui, and Ma riant sustained tho mule solo parts, Russia treats French art more hospitably than in old times she tlid French arms. Carbdta 1'atli has Ihvii astonishing ihe musical dilleltanti of Nice by her marvel-oils voice nnd executive ability. A l'aris journal says: "Cat lot ta Fatti "is indeed a wonderful' singer. Her throat is the throat of a ni id din gale, whence flows, without tin effort, a Mashing casende of nolo, pure, clear, is-arly, and glittering its a shower of tirewarks,, She pn.-VH with marvelous facility .without bretik.trom the deep and full notes of the contralto to the hie, It soprano resistor. She entrances nnd as. toiiihe with her roulades, with her airy flights, nnd with the rum1 wilh which she take notes far licyond ihe onlinnry range of vohv." Cnrlotta's recent concert in Turin, in aid of imiMivoriidiod French sufferers, reulied gSiKMi. " Yol Nti MAN, do you ever think V" asked a mild-looking man nei-osling Jones, "Well, yes, tbinik vmi, a it's ft cold morning 1 don't niiml," replied Jones, return ing his quid of tobacco. " I Vui t do it any more," rejoined the mild man, " or yon will eventually Is . Good morning, God hies yoil." J

VOL. LXV LSWJ!S' a run. o, 18. NO. 31. COLUMBUS, SATUKDAY, nwr. Nonr.TY. I'll (ill Vim : nil I lie lixr I Know mankind, Tin- inon- I thank lod, llk.'ruyttrmi.lnii.ltii r, T.ir iniikinjr mo n Hllc lower tlimi The im.-i.-ls, hm.n-cl')t!n.l mvlRlory-erowtiwl: This r Hi.- li.mur lli:t no thing I know, Fii- or loiii-Hvc, but 1 ewi make yon own "iJiiH'hnw, dy ii" of luuul or head or heart : Tht i tiro glury ttml in nil coiu-i.'iveil, ' Ir felt or known, T rceogniw n toiml No mini' I'Ut lit.i- niitu'-f ir the iloM- joy Miikm "11 iliiityi for inc nn-l dig for linn. There's folly for j.ni tit tin:" time of tiny t 1 hu ll. iiMii Is, llinvli Klcrnitv, The t'H'.tlizin;', i-vi-r unil mum, In iimnn'iitiiry ninitre, gtcut.willi smalt, lliiitiiwiCLK'c wilh liilcllnjt-nee, Urnl Willi mim tin- tluni'lcr-glow from pole to 'silo Ahulishini;, n tiliNsfnl moment -space, limit i-lotnl likt mi l siunll cloml. In one lire As sure to phh a sore ngitin lo lhw WliMitlic new re-'titity ituirvi-s The nt-w i-HiniK'lioli. There' tin' Hi'jveii for Ami I siiy, tlieri'l'.ire, to loe oiih'h lift - irtlii' worlil InTc, Hill tin- r linnet whether ly or ilciiniii' lie Die jivoim-ss, I'tiitf or slum Tim linn', august or menu 1 1 ? i-iri:iiiiiMiuiii'i' To hnidfjfi eye of teaming liniv set foot H'iil.'lR mi mmii'oiit' Till i lo II .-H ven. Touch sei(iiiint in the circle wli'-ncc all line l:ti to (h iiti'reii iUy, red lim-i Mr l1:i"k lines, -d tlii-y hm oiniliiei' lli.tu- lllH- This I il :iy :iihl ln-iv my senium eiul Thin makes it Hurth mir u loh- to tcli.tcrly . Hamlin a stale of l hi ii if-, uliirh iiiiml we iitinlit, M ir hi- tii:iy, hut which itiemiw Ink- lulpssu fur. Therefore my emt is sine society ! -.Wi H-rt J(iW.hiV SnW.ifSwj, MiliH-lii'il in 111" Ohio Ktnto .loimml hy ie mission of II :n-ji-i- X llmtlu-i's, who jitiieliim mlvaa-i' sheet lii'iii the nut Km' for IIiiIht Weekly. POOR MISS FINCH A IIiiimonIIc ftlory - II V WII.KLK COLLIN.-. Author nf "Tli" CHAFTLR FOKTY-KIGHTH. ON TIIKWAVTOTIIK EN 0. K 'I tKli HT AH K, - K;rly riser us 1 was, 1 found that Oscar liinl risen earlier Mill. He had K-ft tho rectory, and had disturls-d Mr. Ituiilliu-riil"e'H moriiiiif,' hIiiiiiIkm by nn nii)icn-t kit itt llit inn lor tlie key of 1 trow in low n. On lii rclnrii to I lie nvtury, hy miTt'ly Hitiil (hut lie liuil Ikh'H to hcu iifu-r vurioin tliinm IfeluiiKiitU I" t'iin which were mill lilt In the empty ii-ttiM). lliit look itnd niaiiuiT an Uv t(avo thin Lrict oxplanntiun wcrt', t my niiml, moru tin a lift hu'tury than ever, I niailf no ri innrk; und, tih-HcrvitiK tliiit Iim Iikimo tnivuliii emit wiih Ittittinu' away ovit tlm hreast, i not it riiht for him. My IiiiihI, I did lliin, luuelifl Id' hreant jiiMikct. Hu HtarUil hack directly, tm If tlure wan MmiethiiiK in the pockcl which lie Ud nut winh mi; t feel. Wrh it Homt-thiiiK hv h:id liroitglit from llrowiidown? W'v jfot away uruiiilitred hy Mr. Kiiir-h, who iimi.-ttd on alt aching hiinwlf to Mcar hy the iirnt uxiiretw traiiwliich took uifrnlrninht lo l-onduii. t'oitijiariwiii uf ttiuc-tiher't mi rennliiiiK the tcrminiiH, fihowed Umt 1 Jiad leUuiu to Hpare for n brief vinit td Oron&o lcforo we HKin took ttic railway buck, to Nydauliam. J living i ' tleeidcil not t mwition tbd bml new about ""-". Lttrtlli'i-eyen to (hear Until i had ieon - ,Hrtfl'inn..ftrtt, 1 nmdo tin bwt exeune - -V 4jint uifnoliUJ-i(,4r'1d-drove-away c-w .Ituxiiif; the twuffrmk't'U u (h .waiiin ,- " twin n1lieMntiih, i 'f4ri t rt'inil Kirn11 -amliiiij-1 hqiMiiv ,-; ?J,..:urT?'Witii-'lH--l6f'&tVV; ii'Ol tiiv'ctiinl 0 ' .yipKlbii)vh-iivf.ttl''rt'' wuuliii' urnl" Knt; lii-li was more irrotcsuuc than ever. -W hen 1 appeared at the door of his room and said good morning in the frenay of bi impatience, he shook his list at me. ''tiood-nioriiing go-damn!'' he roared out. "Where? where? where in Fceiich?" I told him where we believed 1-tlcilta lo Ik', (irnssv turned bis head, and shook bin list at a Utile on the chimney-piece next, "Oct (hat bottles on (he chimney," he na'nl. "And (he eve-halhs hv the side of him. Don't Mop with yourinlky-talky-cbatlenitiiius here, tin! Save her eyes. Look! You do this. You throw her bead hack soli !" He illustrated lite portion so forcibly with his own head that heshook liisgotilv foot, and screamed with the uain of il. lie Went on, never theless, glaring frightfully through his tqicctuclcs, gnashing his mustache llem-ly U'lwccu his teeth. "Throw her head back. Fill the eve-baths; turn his up sides-down over her oiH-n even. Drown ibeiii itirn-luru-ulHiiil ui my mixtures. Drow n tht'iu, 1 siiv.oiir-dowu-loddcr-cimc- on. und if phr senveh never mind it. Then bring her to me. For the lofe of I iolt, bring her to inc. If vou tie her hands mid foots, bring her to me. hat in the wotnaus nloiiuinir for? tio ! iro ! l'o !" "I want to itk you ft question about Oscar." I said, "k-fore 1 go." He ncitcd the pillow which supported bin head evidently intending to expedite mv departure by throwing in 11 1 me. I produced the railway time-table as (he Ik -it di feunive weapon at mv command. ' ,nok at it for yourself,'1 I said, "and (hat I bail at lc:il ten minutes to sHire, which might lie just us well passed in consulting him. He cIonoiI his glaring even, and laid his head back on the chair, thoroughly exhausted with his own outbreak of excitement, "No matter how thing" goes," he said, "a woman must wag her tongue. Ooot. Wag yours." "I am plao-d In n very dillieult jNisilion," I liegan. "Oscar is going wilh me to Lueilla. ! shall, of course, take care, in the tirsl place, that he and Nugent do not meet, unless I am preen t at the interview. Itut I urn not equally sunt of what I ought to ih in the caw of Lucilla. Muut I keep them apart until I have lir.-t pre-pan d her In see IMcar?" "Let her see ihe devil hiniHelf, if you like, growled Oronse, "so long us you bring her here allerwurd direclly to me. You will do lite bettennost thing if you prepare Osrnr, She wants no prei:irti-liotis ! She is enough disappointed in him im it is." "Disappointed ill him ?" 1 repeated. "I don't understand you." He settled himself wearilv in his chair, and referred, in a solteneif and saddened lone, lo (hat private conversation of bin with Lucilla, ut Itatusgale, which had already Urn rcHirted in the journal, I was now intorinetl, lor the lind lime, ol those changes in her sensations uud in her ways of thinking which had mi keenly vexed and inortilicd her. I hcatd of the otniinnin absence of the old thrill of pleasure when Nugent look her hand 011 meeting Iter nt the sea sitle I heard how bitterly hif personal apcaranee has tliap))ointetl her wheli nhe had seen his features in detail I, by comparison with the charming ideal picture which she had formed of her lover in the days of her blindness; thom' baipier days, ns she had culled them, when she Was I'oor Mis I' inch. "Surely," I said, "till ihe old feelings will coiir- buck lo her when she seen Oscar?"" They will never come back lo her ho, no if she hccs lil'ty Oscars I" He wa In-ginning to frighten mc, or lo irritate me 1 can hardly say which. I only know that I iN-misted in deputing witli him. "When w sevn the true man," I went on, "do you mean lo say she will feel the nuiiie diapioinlmeut '' I could get no further than that. He cut ine short there, without ceremony. "Vou foolish womaus!" he inlerposnl, "she will feel more than thowinie. I have told you already 11 was one enormous u-apK)inlineiils o her when she saw the handsome bnidder with (he fair complexions. Ask your own self what will it Is- when ulio s-s tlngly Imwlder with the blue face, I I. II "w-u this; -she will think vnur true man theworrt imiKwlor of ihotwo." There 1 iiiiugnnntly rontradieted nun. "IIU face ; be a diMatitiiiitmcnt lo lier," I Hnid: "1 own that, lint tliere It will end. Iter hand will tell be r, when he taken It, tlial there in no iintmnttir de- oeivinK her thUtime." "Her hand will tell her imtliiiif nn more than yonre. I had not so much hard heurbi in me on to Ray mat to nor wnen nIio nukeil mc. 1 xav it to you. ilnhl your tongue and listen. All those tbiill-lini'lcfl that she once hail when he toueli- etl her IjehinR to anodder time the timo Rtine by, when her Bight wan in her liu-Kerit ami not in her eyeit. With llume line-HiiH'rlin feelingH of the days when kIid wait iiiinii Hue pays now lor tier Rranu new privilege of ojieuing her even nn the world. (And'worth the yrive, too !) l)o j vmi nndcnilniid vet? It im n sort of hwoii hnrirain between nature and thin poor girl of otin. 1 takeaway your even I Kivc you vour tine toueh. I irive vmi yourerea 1 take away your line touch. Moh ! that in plain. You nee now?" 1 wan too mort mod and too in iw nil Me to aiiHwer him. Throitnh nil our later troubles 1 bad looked forward no confidently to Owar'a re-appearance an the one mil liount condition on which I.uetlla'rt hap-1 pineiw would be certainly rentored 1 What had lieeome of my anticipation! now? I natnileut, ntaritif; in stupid deprennion at tho iiallern of the carpel, (irosm' took out liirt watch. "Your ten-mlnutctt-tiine has couuled lumnclf out," lieanid. 1 neither moved or liei-dd him. His ferocious even bcan to flame uxuin behind bis uioustroun xjiectueles. "( to-lvoll'-with-you !" he nhoutiil tit me an If 1 wiih deaf. "Her even! her eyes I While you stop clmtteringbox here, her even arc in danger. Wnat with her iii'ttiiiKs and Iter eryingn mid herdaiim-iioiisense-loft'-ljusiness, 1 swear you my solemn onlh her sight won In danger when 1 saw her a whole fortnight gone hy. Do you want my big pillow to lly bang at your head? Io you want him?Itc-oti-away with you, then, or you will have him in one-two-three time! Ile-ohV-awav, and bring her hark to me before night !" 1 rcttirnd to the railway. Of nil the women whom I passed in the crowded si reels, I doubt if one lind a heavier heart in her hosnm that morning than mine. To make matters worse still, mv trav eling companions (one in the refreshuient-room ami olio pacing the platform) received my account of my interview with iirosse in a manner winch nenoiihly 1h-appointed and discouraged me. Mr. Finch's inhuman conceit treated my nt-aiicholy newn of his daughter as a upci'ie of cotiiplimeiitary tribute to his own foresight. "You reniemlHT, Madame I'rato-1 ungo, T look high ground in thin mailer from tho first. pri tested against the proceedings of the man (irodw) nn involving a purely worldly interference with the ways ot nn inscrutable rrovideiiee, itb whut etli-ct? My paterniil inllueiico was reimdiated: mv moral weight was. no to sjieak, act aside. And now you sec the result, lake it to heart, dear friend. Mav it be a warning to vou !" He sighed with ponderous complacency, and turned from ine lo the girl behind' the counter. "I will take another cup of ten." Oscar'n reception of ine, when I found him on the platforin,-and told him next of J.ueilla's critical Uitc, was mure than discouraging. It in no exaggeration to iay that he alarmed njc. "Another item In. the tluht I owe to Nugent!" ho said. Not a word of nvm- pathy, not word of sorrow. That vin dictive answer, and notluDK more. Wo ktarted for HTdnihum. Krum. liiue to iiuie 1 lookail at Oscar sitting oppoifiic to ma, (ostwifany ehuiige H'l''y '''-''im ''wt drew iieurtT U the. Nu! SliU Ibctut'omiuoiwailai-ilv h.tm uimuuml scirn-tni,,!! iwkki-bi-i1 I him. Fxeept (he moiiientary outbreak ! when Mr. Finch hud placet I Nugeut's letter in his hand on the previous evening, 1 not the fa intent token of what wan really going on in bin mind had esc;iHil him since we had left Marseilles, lie, who could weep over all his other griefs as easily nnd us spontaneously an a woman, had not xhctl a tear since the fatal day when he hail discovered lli.it his brother had played him false that brother who had been Ihe god of his idolatry, the sacred object of hisgralitudcaml his love ! When a man of Oscar's tetiiH'ruiueiit Incomes frozen up for days together in his own thoughts when he kccM bin own counsel when he asks for 110 nyttiialhy, and utters no complaint ihe nig it is a serious one. There are hidden forces gathering in him which will burst their way to (he stirfaif for good or for evil with an im-sitihle result. Watching (War attentively Miind my veil, I felt Ihe certain a-surance that the part he Would take in lite terrible, conflict of interests now wailing us would lie n part which I should remember lo the latest dav of my life. We reached Sydenham, unil went to the nearest hotel, On the railway with other travelers in tho carriage it had Urn imsissihle to consult on the safest method of approach ing l.ucilla 111 the lirsi ihmuuiv. 1 hat ncrioiin question now prcscd fur instant decision. We sat down to consult on it in the room which we had hi ml at the hotel. A Frenchman, writing In the Oaulois, gives nu account of his sensations while hanging himself, which may Ik; of lnelit to persons of a suicidal turn of mind, and who would like to know "what the thing In like." An if preparing to hang up his coat, he drove u uatl into llie wall, and therefrom suspended himself by n loojied cord, which he fastened nUiiit his neck, and then slow I v kicked nwav his chair. From the crown of bis head to the soles of Ids feet he felt a "general mixing Up ot Ihelluiilsor the lusty. Him was tmc-iveded by a (lushing, dancing light Ifforc his eye, and then concentrated nt a single focu anil theiun rippled into space in concentric circles. His head seemed com-pressed in an iron ring; needles without iniinlier soemetl to dart from the ends of his lingers anil toes; then (hen1 wasn terrible snapping at tho nuc of his neck, and a serient seemi'd In wriggle down his spine. His Inst sensation was one of pain at the throat nnd slioulder-blndes. He had exjiecleil to wake up and lind himself dead, but kind or unkind friends cut him down Till; Chicago Font's Flains corns pond-enl writes: "I never saw so ninny Indian in mv life. I should think (hen1 were n million at leant, 1 won't take oil' an Indian; though several of tbcin will tret taken oil' lie fore snrini: if Oeneral Pal mer moves westwant. Thev nn dn-sscd mostly In blnnkets ami fs-nr's gnase. They ure conliding s.tjile, Yestcnlay a suiid of thirteen came into our tent, and the oldest availed himself of (he right of seniority by sitting down on our hoi Ivox nlovc, which he mistook for a valise. He was very much surprised, and the (Quarter master has been issuing laudanum sitiltiivs ever since," A VAi'ASi'V having oct'iimnl in n certain ehun-h by reason of the rcsignalton of (he organist, ihe (rutees advertistil fur elr. Among (he numerous n-plii-s to the '' """hi"""'" announcement : "t .cnlleiuen : I notice your advertisement lor unraiusi ami music teacher, either lady or genlleman. HnvllJc In-en both for some years, I oiler yon my serviifH. "A basket of champagne!" exclaimed a country dame. "Why I declare, now ! I always thought champagne was watery stall' like ; 1 never knuwed you could carry il in a basket." 'Twus hut n hri'iiih And yet u woiinui'h fuir imiiie In wiltiil. And friuuils oik u mhiiii k'i w ! i mul "liluil, Ami lite M wui-'i' limn .li xih. One Vi'iiotneil wonl. Tlitt ninii-k IIh eouaiil jmt-uneil IiIdw 111 cruii'ti Hliiijicrs, hiitilivl unil Iuh, Ami jet the wiA- worhl licnnl. 'Twin hut out' vi Jii-nTfil one 'Pint tiitilten rt linv I'm- wry h;uin., '11 1 ill tiling tin fhti.ili rcr iture nut u itne, Ul UsHul'k Uilfl ihniv, A hint o flight, Ami vet hi iiiihty in it- power, A Imiimii hiU I, in oik- .hurl 1 r, Lie 'rie.lie.1 1 th il-t HulKht. THE Tltl'E TALE OP MAniLTII. The marvelous Beiliun of Shiikesiiearc may be said to have made Macbeth; for, without that illustration, of what interest or value would have lcen the name of a hc mi-barbarian Scottish monarch of the eleventh century? Hut it has destroyed mm; lorn lias iixeii me inisrepnieiita-tioun of his character on such u bawis, that nothing can ever annul them ; Maclieth must lie the moral of murder und usurpation in bin rank unto all time, Nevertheless, our curiosity in interested to know who and what this man really wav: and erhaw all the more so, (hat our loeticnl conception of him is so diU'crcnt from the reality. It cliuncen that on Ibis ioint some new historical light has of lale been thrown, which may be ptvsunuil to give tin additional interest to tho subject; wc shall therefore, without anv apology or further remark, priHiil to give a brief account of the Mavbcth fact. The true historv of thin iK-riod is for the first tunc related in Mr. William Skene's work on the Highlanders of Scotland (li vols., Murray, lfvlti), U'ing compiled mainly from the Irinh and Norwegian annalists. It is surprising how much it di tiers from the meagre and semi-fabulous accounts which descended, becoming more fabulous as they went along, from our earlv native historians to UuUiiished. who liually gave tlie full-blown tissue ol marvels to Shakcsieare, It apiears llttit, in the yeur It lit 1, the Scottish monarchy came to a sort of pause, on the overthrow and slaughter of a King Malcolm by a powerful Norwegian eliief or Karl of Orkney, named Thorium, lly this gmtt warrior the northern nnd custom (uirls of Scotland were sulslucJ, as far ns the l-'irlh of Tay, but leafing, apparently, certain dislrieui nt ill under their native chiefs. And this divisou of the country lv n Norwegian sway lusted thirty years, ihoiigh il is u fact hitherto totally unknown among us. The restof the K-ople of Scotland raised up a monarch in lite person of Duncan, whom mother wan a daughter of tho deceased Malcolm, his father lieing frinuu, nominally Abbot of Dimkeld, but In reality a powerful chief in the dint riot of Allude. To pursue Mr. Skene's intelligent nur-ratiou:In personal character Duncan won far from lieing wcll-litted for the dillieult situation in which he was placed, but being the only chief of the northern Met who remained uustildue:l by the Norwegins, lie was the most likclv nerson to preserve tlie ret of Scotland from tneir grasp; anil during the whole of his reign, he appeared to have lieen unmolested hv Tliorlinn in bis eircumscrtlied doiiiiuions. T lie Scots, hav ing lluis enjoyed during 1 Juneau's rcign.MX yearn of reHiKc, began to consider their strength siiltieieutly recruited to attempt the recovery ftlH' extensive U-rritorku inJ t)ie nortli Which Thortinn lind comtuercd. taking qdvanuigu, accordingly, tit the trniMrary absence ol .TIiorfinM. who won engnl with the greater purl of hi- Nor-1 Wrgian- foroc in Wl KagUsh uxpeditign, exited it ion, Duncan atlvanivd (oward (he north of K-otlamlanil siirttjiltdJn -U'anJHloi .'ru-h jkui n.aily did ttli tU iK iiu uuHiii 1,111 ..11 ji itf 1, 1 mum nr- i lkjVyi''U.luviiwj Tifei.irltc iliuahilaios tlie north, however, who prcl'ernil remaining under the Norwegian yoke ralher Ihan submit to a chief of their own race who1 title lo the throne they could not admit, opimscd his further irogn'ss, nnd Mudicth, tlie maormor of Moray, atlacketl him near Flgin, det'eatetl his iirmv, and slew lite king himself. M.icU'th imnuiliately look advantage of thin success, and, nssi-led by the Norwegian force which still remained in the cotinlrv, he overrun (he whole of Scot - land, and speedily made himself master of all thai hud remained iiuconqurrcd hy the Norwegians. The nous of Duncan were iMlged lo lice; Ihe eldest took refuge at the court of Kugland, while (he sii'ond lied from the veugeamv of Maclieth to ihe Hebrides, ami surrendered to 'I'horlinn himself. MncU-Ih assumed the litle of king of Scotland, which lie claimed in right of his cousin Malcolm, and, notwithstanding nil the ellorls of the S-ots, he mainlaineil jMiwssion of the crown for a js-rifHl ot eighteen years. Although Mudicth was a native chief, and one of the Oaelic maortnora of the north, vet his conquest can only lie eon-sidcnil with regard to its cllicts ns a Norwegian conquest. I Ic had pn-viously Ui-n tiibutarv lo that people, anil it was hv their assistance principally (hat heIn.--came King of Scotland; so that nt this period wo mav consider the whole coun try nn having liecn virtually under the dominion of the Norwegians Tliorlinn himself ruling over the northern districts. while with his concurrence Macbeth reign ed in the southern half. During the reign of Macbeth, the adher ents of the A thole family made two several attempts lo recover H)ssenston of (he throne lint they wen Until equally UimiiccohsIiiI. The first accunvd in ihe year l(M', when Crinnii, the father of Duncan, attacked Miicls'th nt the head of all the adherents of the family of Scotland. Crinan's defeat was total, and the slaughter very great; for, in the concise words of the Irish annalist, "in (hat 1ml lie was slain Crinnii, Ablsitof Dunkeld, and many with him; namely, nine times twenty heroes." This defeat seems for the time lo have completely extinguished Dncaii s party in Scotland, and it was not till nine years afterward that the second attempt was made. Malcolm, Duncan s "diest son, who had taken n-ftigc in Knglund, obtained from the F.uglish King the assistance of a Saxon nrmv, under the command of Kiwnrd, the Fart of Northumberland; but although Siward succeeded in wresting Uilhian from Maclieth, and in placing Malcolm as king over it, he was una hie lo obtain any further advantage, and MncU'th still retained the kingdom of Scotluud projier, while Malcolm ruled as king over l,ot libit, until, four yeur nflerwnnl, a more favorable opMirltinily occurred for renewing the enterprise. The king of the sou of Norway, in the course of one of (ho ntimeroun piratical exMilitiolis whii'h were still undertaken hy Ihe Norwegians, had arrived nt the Orkneys, and on linding the gnut slate uf pfiwer to which Thortinn had mined himself, he propose that they should join in undertaking and exis-diiiou having no less object than the subjugation of ihe kingdom of Kugland. To this proposal the enlcrprising Far I of Orkney at once ac-ivdcd, and the Iwo sea-kings departed for the soul li Willi tlie whole .Norwegian force which thev could collect. It was not destined, however, lluit they should ever land on the Fuglish coast, for (heir licet upM-arn lo have Uvn disjierM! and almost destroyed in a tcuiiCHt; Hitch wan proba-hlv the calamity which Mcll the exhibi tion, as (he words of (he Irish uniialisl, who alone Nnnrdit (he event, are simply : lint Und was against llicin in that al- i D that the king ofFngland had no si tuner become nwaix1 ol the ui-i-ottl ()f th(, threalcnnl invasion of his : (l,rr;inries. than he sent an KiudMi annv into Scotland lor tlm immune of over- thniwin the power of tlie Norwegians in that country, and of the establishment of Mai co tin Kenmorc on his father's throne; and in the abseinv of the Norwegian, the Saxon army was two powerful for the Gaelic force of M nebcin to withstand. The Fnglish aeconliiigly made themselves masters of the south of Scotland, nnd drove Macbeth or far north an I.umphanan, where hc was overtaken und slain in bat tle. Upon the death of Macbeth, Lulach.tho non of his cousin Oilcomgain, succeeded him; but after maintaining a struggle with Malcolm for the short space of three months, be was also defeated ami slain nt Kssc, in KtratlilOLic. In consequence of this defeat, Malcolm Kenmorc obtained, by the assistance of tlie J'.nltsb, quiet poiessicm of the throne of Scotland, which his own (mwer ami tak-ntu enabled him to preserve during the remainder of his life. lie was prevented, apparently by the return of Thorfinn, from attempting to regain any part of tho northern districts which the Norwegian carl lind sub jugated; and consequently bin terrttorteB consisted only ol tlinc southern districts wlncli AlaciH'th had acquired hy the defeat of his father Duncan. From tho accession of Malcolm Kenmorc to the death of Tliorlinn, which took place six yearn after, the state of Scotland remained unaltered, and the country exhibited the remarkable scctuclc of a Gaelic imputation, one-half of which olicycil tho rule of ft Norwegian earl, while the other half wns snUttied hy a prince of their own race at the head of a Saxon army. Thin narrative putn tlie idea of murder and usurpation entirely out of the question. Duncan wait oulv an adventurer himself, slain in battle by another, who, it now upcars, hail pretentions to the throne according to the Celtic mode of succession, by which the ablest collateml relative of the deceased king was always selected, passing over all hereditary claimants. Maclvth, as wc learn from Oeorgc Chalmers, who investigated bin history with great diligence, was hy birth mnor-mor, or chief of Cromarty and Koss, and by marringo enjoyed the same dignity over the more important region ofMoray, which in descrilsd hy Mr.Skciicanalmont a kingdom Itself, extending from sea to sea. ills wife, ( trough, the widow of the former maortiior of Morav, and whose progeny actually sucivedcd" in that character, was granddaughter ofa fomicrking of Scuts, why had been slain by Duncan's grandfather. MacMh was n sort of pacha or hereditary nherill", but, it will l observed, In a district over which Duncan only aimed at establishing7 a government, ho that he never was, proierly speaking, a subject of thai monarch, lie in rather to be considered as the representative of an-opH)site intercut in the country that of the northern Highlander anil the Norwegians; and his warfare with thi-gmciomi Duncan stvmn therefore to hive been as fair as any warfare of Ihnt npp ptct was. Taking' (lie poetical story in it details, the rencontre wilh the wltrliM shrinks into a very simple matter." The earlier writers s)icak of It ns nnW a rireirm, in which Macbeth imagined himself as addressed by the Three. Fates. The incideirt is thus related by honest Andrew Wyii-town of Loehleven, who wrote nlwut l.'M): , ' '' .. "e nlutit lie tlio'i!it in'nn 'Irwuitlii. Tint .itltinif ! wi WM! tlie tpnip At a nrtil nt hunting: ' Intil In Iritli limlurrvtimm-N tviip. lie lil011ullVlle lit- ,H r.i.UU1, . s lie wiliri'tf tnmeir hy ifBittf-ifl-r r i " Anil Iiiu'ih)i I Hi Itmiiuhi Ik ' ' ,; Tlirt-e f r,l i-ttra mam i"Vu to ht!.' , Thf tlMl lie he.ir.l v, iiiid hv, ' " 'l.n. vt'iehl' ttf' TliMie ort rnnilwi'hty I" ; , The Atlinr Viuunn mit Hiinur, " : 'tr Jli.n.v jmi iui I the 'Uuhk'.' . 'fh iMrdflieit ;iid, re(- the kniff." f An iii he I muni in Ivi" dronming. Thane, It will bu nnderstooi, fa a rVtxon form for tbuCocltc mao(iiior, anl li may further lie exnlaiucd, thai the, madniitir- ship of Moray is what i Iniplutl i;i thu ,tt,rm Thane of Owdor, the sen; of tln-t MorHTehief being at uMer, iu the c. utilvT 4lf Nairn, Wo o ei)iiy believiahai thc-l ttt Nn"imn. Wo rn uki(r hp iieu.lbai i ho I ,'(., U(. uuav Lu a fnuiwl.Li .ut in truth - lniJl . LK'.IJ 10 H'MoUl t :.IUIJly tlfcfl fimong the mofives of i;icat actions in that and subsequent ages, Hut this admission certainly tixcsiio culpability uhhi MaeU'th. The story has, however, Ihvii gn-ally exaggeratnl in the course if time; and, for one thing, the whole portion of it n-ferring to llanqtio Is n fiction. Then-was no such person; then-fore lie never was murdered. And at tlie time when hc is represented as learning that he wan to he the progenitor of ihe house of Stuart, the actual ami's tor of that family was living in Normandy, under (he assumed name of Filallan, not even dreaming of possesning a foot of hind in llritniu. The death of Duncan, instead of a private murderj was, we have seen, the overthrow of n rival in battle. The scene of this light is not precisely known. The old chronicles say it look place nt Ilnthgo-wanan, which Oeorge Chalmers fixes near Flgin; but it was as probably near Inverness, when there actually is a cairn, or heap of stones, called Clacha Doiia'uliie (that is, Duncan's t'airni, implying proh-ablv the scrim of his death. The whole slory of the reception of I tunc an by Mac-) Is th at his castle, the killing of Ihe king ! duriinr the night, and the concealment ol (he murder by the slaughter of the two servants, which Shakespeare derived from llolliushed, is n transposition from n different iktukI of history, lieing u recital of the actual circumstances attending the death of a King Dull, in the catle of Fnrnn, about a century Is fon- the governor of the castle lieing the murderer. Thus the gn-atcsl slain of nil which n-sts on the memory of Miicls-th, vanishes in a moment. That such itains should have . everattuchiil to ihe memory of tin inno cent man, may en-ate surprise; but we should reincinlK'r that he was immediately succeeded by a hostile dynasty, w hose interest it would lie (o blacken him an much as possible, and whom Writers would of course ledisMiscd to Hatter by wiving all the evil they could of (he deccn'd monarch.This influence, Itowiver, has not been able lo suppress the fact (hat MaeU th wan a successful ruler, and, for (he greater part of his n-igtt, cxtrenielv popular. Ituchamin drscrils.- him nn "a man of penetrating genius, of tin exalted spirit, anil delighting in gmil atlairs," IVrhaiw this character was parity owing to a set of wise laws which he was then lieltevt-d to have framed, but the authenticity of which has long lieen given up, Yet that ho was sagacious ruler lor his time, there is no (outit, it is curious that theouly certain ilneumeu'. priM'eitliug from thin suiiixisi-d murderer and his "lit ndqtieen," should Is' a deed in w hich thev are associated in conferring a nimi of territory uhui the K-au'l'ul Culden clergy of Loi lileven. ' Such, however, in the progress of erntr, that (line humlnsl years huer, n priest of this very establishment, probably deriving his support in part from the gill of Macbeth, gravely n-conls n story which makes out (he devil lo have Ihvii (he natural father of that prince. The circumstances attending the conclusion of Maclicth's enn-cr a re given by Shakespeare, as he found them In the chnuiicles. The slory of the rearing ofa castle on Duiis'iiium Hill, the (light of MucdiiH', and slaughter of his faintly, (he conservation of Macdiitl wilh Maleidm in Fu gland, Ihe march of ihe Fnglish army lo liimam, (he moving wosl, and the attack on DiiiiMiimin, an' all slatui by Andrew Wyniown, who, however, n-pn-seiits Maclieth as n-trcaling to the north, and l-iiig slain at Lumplutnan, inAlei-dccu-shire, which, (hen- can Ih no doubt, was the true iivne of bin death. Wyntown s leaks of MacU'th an one w ho 4 III fullfoll fl. il- llil.l uti .ll f . That is, had great faith In fantastic urr-slilions. And he deserilies him ns at the Inst defying the knight by whom he was assailed: and hearing n charmed life, he wan iiwiiml that no man Isiru of a woman could harm him, to which the assailant makes the answer which ShakciM-nrc puis into the mouth of Mncdull. It must U admitted that all these particular, which Sli;ikes(s-im has lixeil in our minds like the tenets of a creed, nre at the best doubtful. It is, however, ai-ceilaineit Unit .MacU'th met his enemies lu n ylv:i battle near Dun- slnnan, 9 here 'O bort, the son of Stwnrd, fell, but 4-hich ru4cd in the defeat of the Scottish moum'lc who then withdrew northward, .f 1 Tho war wn flEfflractod about two years. ' but at length emliitl in the overthrow ami death of Macbot ft I December 5, WVi), at Lnuiplmnan, wiui e a son of his also fell. Mucbcth's cairn, j memorial of his fall, is still seen about it mile from Lumphuuau kirk, on the bm , of a hill: a few miles northward in if mige stone, which the country people In ieve to mark the siot where tho son wu ' slain. Fven the hint defeat did iiotcitHjely destroy the streitL'th which rallied nAind Macbeth; for Ins step-son, Lulach yhy birth maormor of Moray h was madijrkiiig in his stead, and reigned for foufrmonlhs. This prince fell, April, 10:I7,' r Ksse, in Strnthbogie, in a battle, whiclifrnally gave the crown lo Malcolm Dunisk're. Such in the real') istory of Macbeth. In- J hiring antifuariW lind in him merely a lighhind chief contending for, anil temporarily holding, empire on the strength of the ancient Ceuic right of succession, and representing (he Highland or Celtic portion of tho people against similar ad-venlurera, who r'(rmnUd the I)wland interests, and anugliidi mode of succession. He was, 30 r bis dav and generation, a wise nnd gtjjd king; Itut he failed to maintain his ground, ami, like other representatives of iiippreMcd systems, he has been traduced. tj Here, however, good has most assuret)lyp""ne out of evil ; for from these obscurelfcaluninien and ridiculous mnnkili.fahkI gen iih has ultimately formed ngrand talc of human pasnion, which must remainilo evoke sublimek-u-sationn of pity and rror for all time. IJTEK.vlV (iOSSlP I.. lVrcy Fitrget.ild has written the "Life and Advcnttrtvs of Alexamler D11-mas," which will slifirtly lie published in Kugland and rcpufckjthcd here. Kliskin ban ordi i! the newctUliou of his work to bcbotful in rich purple calf. with gilt edges, anfrhot a single copy will be allowed to gi) o4t in any other sh;ie. The l.lppineirttty'H in -mini, paid $S0"O for advance sheets oJl''orsters "Dickens," thus obtaining itovijr the Applelons'n hid of fy'MM. They buA oflcred lll,Hiitl fur ailvance sheets of Hihvor's new nowel, Mrs. Tjeonowen's ptorile pupil in Siam was n young mother? v ho was xo grateful for being taught, (onl, nnd so delighted with nailing fiu'le. Turn's Cabin, that in ulllicr after lettcnrVi her governess she signed herself ''Ilarii'et Iteecher Stowe." There are no feir than Z'-V1 H)litical journals pHldrsetl im the Swiss Republic. Of, these, out only imprinted in KuglMi, agiilftitt l71i appenrl,ig in ttcrman, 'J in Itnliiuij 4-t in French, and f in the llrtiuticC lit iloct. I'.vide these there are 1 rO other periodh'ur.Viiblicatious. Tho private librnfof the late Marquis tie Moraiitp, rectory T the I'niversity of Madrid, which, wuh Vntly sold, conisled of tjtiu hund-d aint irenty thousand vol-timet, of which a lar numU'r were very rare and valuable, r Ote of them onif lie-longing to tlm l'Opef and otlnT ljiropcan intletitato. ;:' - ' Jean InffflftW, M 1b now -II years old, is th'1- daughter of C 'mntry banker, nnd, in money iiwtjtufsf ijuicely provideil for. Slio lives In. great, 'irtinemi'tit, nnd her uuiet ljftnii life Let 1ft of devoteil nuriiv jyniid abiTi'l'iiding chiirlif1: Most of the pro- (f-iot her bik flncvoted to U'lievo-leid -purosei. Tiie- Turkish decrement reivntly or- tiewd al i-Ihi tA-lfcitl tvd all im ropei- i'f. iHrateil works to tie iilHOAted. bul K ill lie local, authorities tlvi(o what cniatv. ndvr thin definition. SVb reini.m sor it vi Uiush enlitthtened cntKmcn doif i$i tlnte 411 confiscating M?i"l -O'l, M 1 1 HI ' -' M0isirnil0 l American inissioiiai,-, a iai,J-. and other wmhs equally innocuous. The Kev. W. .1. Loflie is preparing n volume called " A Cciilliry of Jtibh-s; or, Ihe Authorized Yetvion front ltll to 1711," which will comiirlse a coiuph le bibliographical list of upwards of :t-'-U editions of the llihle and Testament of the Authoriwd 'ersion printed Infore 1711. An Apsiidix will contain a list of the llihles of this tninslation in the Hritish Museum, (he Itodleian Library, the col-, lection of Mr. Fry, thiwo nanuil by l-ea Wilson, and tho in a few smaller collections, ! The American Kcglstcr, publiliiHl weekly in l'aris, Fininv, is the best of the numerous journals which have from time In lime npH-urvd for the hem-lit of the traveling public. It contains a list of the Americans in Furoiewith their addresses, n variety of advertisements of mjkm'ihI service to American tourists, and n well-digested com pita (ion of American and general news. Mr. l!yan, the editor, has long lsvn connected with the New tork pn-ss and knows how to make anhden-st-ing and valuable p:q r. The I'niversity I'ublishiug Conipauy of New York will soon issue two remarkable works. The first is a translation into Fnglish, for circulating in this country, of the Japanese book by Mr. Mori, of the legation, upon "Life nnd I'e-oiirces in America." Ihe ,lai;ilie edition is also printed hen-, and is nlnady in the binder's hands. The other, entitled "The Japanese in Aim-rica,' is n full account of (Im Chinese Finbiissy, by Mr. Charles Laiiman, with a collection of remarkable essays written by Ihe Japamsv students in (his country, In the London Academy of February l-'ilh, Matthew Arnold, irilicising lb-nan and scotling faintlv nt the Yankees, suvs that Kenan can not la- surpassed as n critic hv tiertuiiny or any other country, and ndils; "Wc have hist been muling an American e--nvi-t, Mr. Higu'insoii, who snys that the l iiitiil States tin- lo evolve a tvjie of litenu v lahnt sus rinr to niiy (lung yet nvii in Ihe mother country; nnd this, perhaps, win it it is ready, will Is-something to siiijui e us. llul, taking things ns they tmw nn1, where shall we lind ii living writer whoso habitually an M. Kenan moves mining questions of the dceiK-sl intcn-l, presents them sotiltract-ively, dicuscs them with so much fecl-1 ing, insight, and felicity?" During (he hist year a large area of (he Temple of Diana, tit Fphestis, has Is-en cleared to the pavement, and various on-hitcctunil marbles have b,eti fntind. in on' or less mutilattd. The scale of an-hitcctiin- is coin-sal, exci-ling, It is Is- Ih-Visl, in pnqiorlions (he cclehratiil Temple of Jupiter OlvtnpiH, nt Athens, the temple at l(raii(-liid:e,aud all oilier extant examples of Oreek architecture. Oil one I of the stones is n relief representing Hercules struggling with a draped fentale figure, and on another fragment of a drum an- the lower halves of some m-alM and standing female tk'iires. Thin sculpture In very hold mid elliclive ns decora lion, but it is said lo want I he charm and fresh ness ot Ihe friew ol ihe Parthenon. LtlxT. D , late of the regular army, when nt Washington lust fall, under somewhat Hi'tiliar eirciimslaiiees, wasin-troduivd to a young lady at sumo reception. After some ordinary remarks upon commonplace topics, (be htdy said; "t hit-city is very full of your nrmy gentlemen at present; may I a-k yon if ymt an- le i-e on leave?" "1 am iml," inisHin-d D.; "lieneral HancN-k denireil to have aJx-r-sonal interview with me iisu important business, and pn-vnihil upon the Adjutant lieneral lo onler me here forthepurpoM.'' An Captain D. was oiuv heiinl to n-ioark, "exactly." The lieneral saw poor D., and he enten-il Uhhi civil nrsiiits under the provisions ol' the lute army bill in eonw-iiiiciice, D. wns something of a wil, loo, hen askeil by the liisieling ntlicer, "What small arm, Mr. D., do you consider Ust adapted to ihe colored soldier V" "liaxnrs," proiupliv answered D, Why is a lady fainting like a ship with a man overlmard ? liecaitsc she ought to nc orougin in as soon as possible. WASHINGTON LKTTKKS. From Our Own Correspondent.! Washington, March 28, 1872. If wc were permitted (o name the parties to the following described interviews, it would lie discovered that our corrc-sHindent has written the plain and unvarnished private opinion nn expressed to him for this purjiose, hy two of the most eminent men in the K'tuocratic party. A private note assures us that the interviews ure genuine, and the sentiments correctly reported, (hough our correspondent Is threatened with aboriginal treatment if hc discloses the names of the interviewed. Ko. Statu JuntNAi.. This great Ifcinocmlic party, which has occupied so much of the attention of the American public for some years past, is seriously "tore tip in its mind" just at the present juncture. Il thinks it has n victory jnt in lis grasp, but how to avail itself of the opportunity Is the one thing in the way. on can no more get one-lhird of the IViitoerutie party to agree as to policy with the other two-thirds than you can get anyone of that devoted hand ever to confess (hat all or any of the results of tho late war ore tN-riiittiieiit, "constitutional" or lasting, llrief, but iointed interviews, had recently with some of (he most prominent of (he Democratic leaders of to-day, develop the fact that there in no more chance of that party thus uniting (ban there is of oil and water mixing. They ditll-r so, as to "how lo do it," while they nil claim it can be done. Let us give tlie substance of two of lliese interviews suniplen of all the rest. No. 1 we will say (and tell the truth) was a soldier in the late war. Hen-pre-sentn about one-third of his party "never was a copi-erhead mvself," l.e says, "but couldn't see the wisdom of the recon-stmetion policy adopted by Ihe Itepubli-ciins, ami so I 'IlopiK-d.' " "How do things look?" "Well, it's hard lo tell, I'olitics arc in a chaotic condition. 'I' hen' in no telling which way thccnt'll jump." "So you can't sec anything nliem! for the Democracy? You don't indulge in any dreams of success?" "Now see here, young man, there Is no use of your going off half cocked in that way! Nobody said that there is no hoie for us fellows. To say the very least vou must admit that our side of ih wheel must come up some day. I said things Wen' in a chaotic condition. And (hat is so, too. lint still I think our chances unvJ better than they ever were la-fore. You see, it's like this: Kverylmdy concedes that there is enough opiositioii to (irant to lK'iit him if it can only lie united you don't? Well you don't count. You "are a dam m-itolUce anyhow. Fverybisly concedes that lirutit can be liealen if only the elements of opHisitiou can he united against him. Can they lie united ? That's the question. And I believe they can. Yoti know that this Democratic party of ours has U-en so lammed around, and wal-lopjied anil beaten, nmi used up generally, (hat it's had the starch prettv Wfll taken out of it. These old oopR'rfiead fellows arv K'giuning to learn something, They thought first after the war was'over that there wan bound to be a great revulsion in popular feeling, and they would rido into nllice on the top of n great wave. Hut they were mistaken. She didn't revulse worth speaking of. And we have had several chances since that time, but those BtifT-nocked cusses wouldn't sou the point. Ihey wouldii t go nt It right. Your fellows would be all divided and lorn up your forces nil scattered, and in um st--fvit Km w gi wmppvJ. And we saw nil these rbances, nnd for n little while it would look as though we wen- aUnt lo take the reins. We f -lions who had never lieen dyed-in -the-wool, who had hivu war I Vmocrat, saw (hat our chance for victory lay in our uniting on aomo moderate man some war man, either one who had been n soldier or one who had not at leant cursed the soldiers. We fell that with such a man we could give you a lively tussle! And for a while these old butternuts would ngn-e with us or seem lo Ihey would Hot object. Ami jllst as everything seemed a ripening for our ghiry,thy blamed old fools would straight en up their hacks ami insist on nominating one of (heir own memliers. Of euiirse we would fail till doomsday by nursuinir such a policy as (hat. You couldn't cram mu-U a man down tho people's throats. And so you fellows would unite again, and wc would get wullopHil again. "Well, as I nay, we have got the starch pn-lly well out of I host- fellows now. I'hcy know ihey can't make it win long an it look thciu to learn il. And thut they have finally learned it in Ihe one great reason why I think things look better for us. We can unile with the Lilieral Republicans, and tuipjiort whoever they nnmiunte at Cincinnati, you see, and bust you fellows wide oh-u. That ain't elegant, but it's highly descriptive!" " Then you will support the man nominated by iho LiU-ral Republicans, will you ? All go in no division llourlion, I'lissiuu and nil ?" "Of course we will! Not a bit of doubt about that. Well, you know that in if they nominate the right sort ofa mnn.von know." "Oh !" "Yes, and they will do Ihnt of course." "Who, now for instance, would lie the right sort of a man ?" "Well, I'll tell vou who they will nominate. That's liiarle Francin Adams. He In the very brnl man in tho world. .ud ihey il nominate hini ihey know their business. Then they'll put some such man an Hendricks or Ikiolittle on for ice I rcsldeu,. DtMililllo would Ihj the Vst; he Mood nil right during the war mid I lendrickn didn't. Tom's a mighty good fellow, though, and if it could lie done, I'd ralher sec him for the fust phuv, and nt leiisl for Ihe second, Itut il wo are going to do il at nil, we must go tlie whole hog." "Are you sun? ihey will nominate Adams, and that your parly will support him V" "Certainly. It's us plain as the nose on your face and that's putting it strong, ain't il ? You've got u mighty plain nse. You hi Adams wan out of Iho eouniry iluriiiir all these miuatible. He wnn n-l- resenting the I'niled States nhmad, nnd doing it very creditably, lie never did unything n-iunrkahlv brilliant, but he didn't make ninny midakes, And lieing out of ihe country, not mixed up wilh all mir quarrels hele, he hasn't made enemies on either side. He Would lie welt on our stomachs, and would not Kuikc you fellows sick. We could nil swallow him. And then his father and his grandfather In-fore him were Presidents. That would In lp more I ban you would think for. "e an-tierce deiiKK rats in thin coiinirv and all that sort of thing and ptcteud We ibili'l believe ill blood, volt know but We 1 believe in it. It is something for n man lo know that his grandfather wasn't hung for shn p thieving, II it is of no oMu-r use, ii puts him on bin good ls havtor. "Yes, I Kiu-ss Unit's so. Well, have you anything more to olli r ,'" " "No, You an-a whipisil coiumunilv, though. Yoil can mi that down nn.-fl-tled tint in, if them- old llmirbmis, as voll call them, don't still" n up, and 1 lurdly think liny will. They have liecn whipped loo of i en (o enjoy it any nion" No. n-prcseuted the two-thirds. He wits not in the annv, although he intulo. war speeches till 'li-, and then turned his color. He lives in a Kmucralie district nnd ban Iktii In Comm for the last twelve years. Yoil will obscive he goes with No. 1 for home distance and then he diverges. "Whit ii e ing lo happen? Hani to set'".' The fact is tint ("dilies an' 111 a chaotic conditio!) just now." It is a remarkable fact that if you can get a Democrat to talk at all on Kiliticn he uiens out with tho last sentence or its equivalent. It may lie tho result of some diabolical conspiracy to kill the iieujde ofl' with the monotony of the thing. Who knows? And the next sentence to come is also in variably used. "Itut there is one thing quite evident. If all the element! against (irant could only bo united he could be beaten, easily." "Can they be united ?" "That in the question. I believe they can, though. A great deal deRnd on the action of the Lilwral Republicans at their Cincinnati Convention. If they put the right man in nomination our party would support him, and thus defeat Grant." "Itayou think there are enough Liberal Republicans, ns you call them, to amount to anything .' Uh yen. mere droelcy, anil Sumner, and Sebum, and Tipton, mid Jlal- steud, nnd Ii. Oratz Urown, and , oh yes, there are plenty of them." "Who can they nominate lo command the siiport of your party ?" "It don't make much difference who. Any good, stNiure man will do." "Charles l raticis Adams?" "Oh. not The greatest mistake that seems to threaten us is that some such nmu will he nominated, Adams will never do. Why, who is he? Whut has he ever done? He was at St. James dur ing a long term of years, but he never did anything of any great merit. He wan a respectable old mummy sort of a fellow, and did very well as an unobtrusive lay tigure. Rut ho is no statesman. Ihe country has never had evidence of his lie ing possessed of anvnliililv more than any common man. Ho is not to be thoinriit of. "Itut a great many of your people are thinking of him." "If they ure.they are wasting their time. The Democratic party will never support turn, va hy( no t com as n tisii the .u- nms family was never popular. They never held any place in the hearts of the iKHiple. The Liberal Republican move ment won't nniount to anything at all if they nominate such a man as Adams." "Who is the man, then ?" "Why, I'll tell you. Tom Hendricknis the man. They will nominate him if they are wise; nnd of course he will command the full strength of our party. He is a statesman, strong in bin convictions, but never excessively violent. And he is popular." "How alio ut Judge Davis?" "Well, he would muko a tolerably good man. After Hendricks probably the best wc could get. He is a good Judge, and then you know that for twenty-live years he was tho intimate friend of Abraham1 Lincoln," (And this is a recommendation in Democratic eyes lo-dny. Verily, times change!) "Hut then there is no use going outside our own party for ft candidate.""You don't think then that Sumner fc Trumbull would do?" "Certainly not. Wo don't supoe our jieopte are such fools as to vote for men who have oeeu (heir bitter enemies for years. Of course iiott Rut there is no danger of (heir choosing a man of that fttripc. They know that they -must have an equivalent for our three million vote, or wo won't trade. Oh! no. If they propose to nominate anyone who has in the past made himself obnoxious to the Detti-otTatic party, they might as well subside. We would rather bo beaten again. And that's why 1 think our chances for success are good. If they nominate such a man n Sumner, they divide your party, and we can take advantage of that division and elect our own man. White if they nominate such a man a Hendricks wc , will unite with them and thusbeattira, i.1' Now tlieae ure tWn ioto-r j IVmocralic n'prcM'ittflllre men, high in tho parly, and who could only be prevailed upon to talk when they wen-assured that what Ihey said should not U published with their names attached. Ami I hey certainly confirm our statement, made in the outset, that iho llemocratic jiarty is "tore up in its mind." The n-siilt is plainly to le seen. Two-thirds of the party believe that the long looked for revulsion has come, and that they can nominate their own man, n reliabio old "copjierhead," and elect htm. And they will nominate such n man, and the other thin! will come in at the bidding of tho majority. Tho Cincinnati Sick Republican Convention may labor mightily; It will nring lortn uothing to suit the I euiocracy unless It nominates a Ik'tnncratnf ye olden kind. If Ihey nominate any Republican, or such n man ns Judge Davis, the Ikunocracy will take it as an evidence of the weakness and division of the Republican jmrty.and will nominate with a view to winning, and that without conceding a point. And any ono who is at all conversant with Dcmiicratic tactics, as illustrate! by their history, can see what they are at They paw around (irceley, and thmw up (he dirt aboul Sumner, and nrnise Trum bull, and publish long column of euloeiiim of Davis. They only wish, and intend by nil this, toierstiade n portion of (he Kcpiihlicun party Hint they win unite on some such man an the Cincinnati Convention mnv choose, secure his nomination by thin means, and then, having assured a division, ns thev upiosc, in Republican ranks, take advantage of it to elect a K'tnoerat. Tho programme Is plain enough, and sutlicu ntly child-like to be apparent lo all. i knpennis, Washington, March 2!, 1872. It is conceded that Mr. Sumner's Intent effort is n titling eap-slono or finish to the small history which he ha made in the past few months as a disappointed, embittered man, who conceiving a hatred for another has pursued that other with revengeful intent, and, Wing blinded by his own malice, with disastrous result tohim- self, lie has ls-cn no anxious, to hurt him whom he cho-c lo consider lit adversary. thai he Ins not looked V-fore ho leaped, nor has ho regarded tho weapon which bin hand found to use. And a one wound after another has resulted fmni hi hasty can-lessiiesn in choosing means to the end, hi exasperation apK-ars to have grown greater and lo have driven hiui still further into tho iDiiim is.i ion of more rashness. The country ha lieen loth to believe of Mr. Sumner that he haa changed from that which he onoe was to bo the companion and chosen leader of a na-t iou'sscuiidal-monger and common scold. Hut It is gradually being fon-ed lo this conclusion and driven to lie) ieve against its wishes and ho. It is melaucholly to look upon n downfall so great, and to contemplate the ruins of that whiidi was once so noble. One ensts about for the causes of the disaster, and is fain in common charily to annign physical decay and weakness a the chief one. Kven those new found friends and champions of Mr. Sumner, the I emoeracy, can find no well grounded excuse for that gentleman's singular conduct More the I Seliute committee lo investigate the sale of j arms to Remington. They feel thai the position he there assumed is so inconjisi-ent with his eagerness to have sucli a com in it tee iipHiintcdt that it throws him ok-ii (o so grave suspicion (hat they cannot consent to Iw involved in theentaugle-ment he has woven for himself. Resides, they, in common wilh ihe mas of the HHip1e generally, do hoi precisely understand how he proMiscs (o make his position tenable. He finds few to indorse him in the singular line of defense he has chosen to pursue. Mr. Sumner has lsvn verv anxious, ap parently, to have his charges, so persistently siiHtaiiunl by him in the Senate, thoroughly investigated. He has cried aloud and spun-d not, In season and out id' season ho has insisted upon investigation. And vet when ho i summoned fore the committee to Usiify of that w bich he has ehanred. he stands mute, ami refuses lo t H-ak, upon n quibble of Ihe law a petty technicality which he makes his defense. He has made charges of the gravest character against the Administration, implicating some of tho highest ollicers of the government. Ho is asked to give tho names ot the witnesses upon whom he relic to prove these things. And he stands mute. He says hc has no names of witnesses to give. He nuikes a charge against his government that it has violated one of Ihe rules of international law. When asked by the committee, which ho caused to be created to investigate this charge, what proof ho has (hat the ottenno lias U-en committed, he refuses to testify save to that which idle rumor has carried to his ears. He will not give (he information that will bring anything more tangible than these rumors before the committee. The only light ho shells upon the matter merely develop tho lact that ho has mane these charges without first satisfying himself that they had any foundation whatever. . I le merely show that in his eagerness to hurt Grant ho has jumped at a shadowy suspicion, and that without any care to see that it had any grounds in luct. And his reason for ho doing he says is that the committee is not constituted in accordance with the usages of parliamentary law. The truth lieing that he ha nothing to testify to, and dread the exjiosure of the fact that to satisiy his own jwlty malice he lias os-sibly involved the good name of his Gov ernment. If ho hud the damaging revelations to make that he has pmfessed lo have had, he would have quickly produced them, Ho would not have taken his stand upon an inlinitcssimal quibble on an obscure legal point. He knows that thin investigation is made in public. That the representative of the press nre present always, and eager to catch anything which may go to iimve his charges. He knows. as everybody knows, that the action of the committee with regard to the matter would be of small moment. That if the committee should ever go so fur as to de cide against the evidence, and in the face ol it, there is another committee, an impartial one, which is Ihe great public, which would weigh tho evidence, and give a venlict in accordance with the facts adduced. That hi exoniire of criminal wrong doing would be no less cllcetive because a committee of Investigation might, through I pnrliality, fail to do its duty. Thin is the day when everything of public interest is published, The development of high ! crimes, an violations of international law, is of public interest, and no power on earth would prevent the publication thereof in all it damnable details. And ! ho knows that in such cane no punishment would be Bwifler nor more severe than that which would le visited upon the offender by tho public which can nt all events he trusted to make up on impartial verdict. Charles Sumner made these grave charges, In his place in the United Stales Senate, when bound by the obligation i' his sacred oath ns a United State Senator, and pledged to honorable, patriotic eo0uct by the rcconl of his life. I'lie country demanded that hc sustain these charge the committee of Investigation did not stand alone in asking for the proofs. The country had a right to demand this. Itut Mr. Sumner declines to give it. lie is insolent and insullbrnbly overbearing in his conduct toward the committee, Hc i no less insolent and overbearing towani the country. Ho takes the position thai he ha in his power to reveal wrong-doing nnd illegal action on the part of the officers of theOovcrnment, but that he will not reveal these things because he is hot asked in tho mani)er which lie deem proK-r. That is, he may keep that within himself which (he good of tho nation demands should be revcaletL because il doe not suit him to reveal ii: Ue has bean summoawl by-llie- yncde- iakajuuiJi(A wuusatfjun,"; Mat Vur. ernmetit, (hm! Im refusw to testif, and in consequently guilty of contempt. This i what it amount to, and it is ft mntter of national disgrace. Not that Sumner wished to disgrace his country in tho eyes of the whole civilized world, by casting a taint of infamy upon its good name. Nobody thinks that he desired to do that. Rut lie did desire to injure the President. Hc did desire to blot the fair fnmo of one whom he le-lievcs lo 1st his enemy. He did wi-di to compass the overthrow of one man, lo gratify hi own malicious revenge. Rut to do this he has not hesitated to cant the taint of infinity upon the good name of his country. To do tin he ha not hes itated to imicril the lieacc and welfare of his country. Aim nit upon rumors nun idle gossip which lie himself acknowledges fee Is unalilc to sulistanliate. No more a statesman, no longer a patriot, but Charles hiiuiuer the oacktiiting, malevolent gi-ssip ami niMchicl maker I Y'ou statist in a paragraph on the re- (Kirtof the Ku-Klux committee tho other day, that six volumes of the evidence hail been published. Jimre volume ol lrom six to seven bund ml pages each, arc found inadequate lo chronicle n small part of tho doing of this Southern wing of the Democratic party. 11 1 a source ol grealsntisiaclion to the Icnincracy, and their present nllles, tin-sick Republicans, to know that a great many investigations are going forwanl today, into the conduct of various Government official. They advert to it frequently, and dwell upon tho fact with great relish. They are evidently highly delighted at this condition of things. The Republican parly is also well satisfied that the men whom it ha placed in office shall be investigated in the most thorough manner, and their official conduct sub. jocted to tho most senn-hing scrutiny. ICvcryliodv is happy again, and wc here havo anotlier evidence of (bo rapid approach of the millennial time, Ono reason why Ihe iVmocrncy nnd (ho Sick lU'pnhlicuns rejoice at thin state of things is, lecause they imagine somehow that il proves, to some extent, that the Administration is dishonest nnd guilty of criminality of various sort. To reach this Ihey use, of course, a very peculiar sori 01 logic a Kino which nan out josi come into anv shape of general approval. and which may lieeome fashionable some dar strange things have occurred before. I Ait in rell ect upon the onler of thing which will result from the universal adoption of a rule which will condemn on mere suspicion, without wailing for evidence. They say it is a poor rule that won't work both way. Now, il is shrewdly suspected that in the ranks of the Sick Republican may be found various soreheads who have failed to secure nil the patronage ihey coveted ; (lint many have oincd Ihe movement merely lo gratify 'the smallest motive of malice growing out of blighted iiuimH in a mercenary sort of way. Sumner has not lieen worshiping and deferred to in that sooth iiur si vie so essential lo hi huppinesM. Trumbull's worthless son was not apiHi'uiUsl assessor ol a western lerntory. rvinim has not had court paid to him as a 1'rovidenliul disiicnsution for tho healing of our woe nnd the perfecting and caret if our Repub lican torm oi tiovernincnt. i niton ami Lnnn have nothing else to do hint now. (irosvenor, the cashiered army officer, is of couno an Isbnim-Uie. Greeley didn't gel that K)slotlieo some time ago, nnd tho present Administration mis tailed to und in him those qualities which would justify il in making him postmaster nt l'odunk". Kx-S'iuilor Ron and Fowler have hot relished the privacy to which their double-dealing and weakness in time past ha justly consigned them. II tils tend, it is intimated, hasn't received hi price yet, and 1 Vacon Smith is a truly good man ! ! All Ihesc things are suspected, intimated, hinted at, insinuated alsiut in public iWl in private. In allcases the motivM of the Sick Republican have lieen impugned. Shall we apply the rule? Shall wo Inko these gentlemen nt their own standard? Shall we say they nre thus guiltv in manner and form charred? It would lie niueli on 1 Vacon Smith ! The people, fortunately, lake ft dilleront view otthi mtilter. They see invest iga thins ordered dav after dav. Thev see an administration maligned and abused as no administration since tlie days of Wash-ton ever wan before. Thev see the malev olence of tho opjtfifdtinn to the administration so great and so powerful that it actually ban power to besmirch the characters of ihose holding high places in ine uoVerniiiL-iit, ami Iheysee these olh-ciaht courting and inviting these investigations to cheek, if possible, thisunpar-alh-lled wholesale lying for jsilit'ical pur- courts investigations of nil kinds, only asking that they may be thorough unil searching, They sec Simmer nnd Dain fye Gods, what an assorted pair!) not only failing to Htistain their charges in any part thereof, but trvinif to evade tlm n.-cotsitv fnrniii- laining them by all manner of sfiystering tricks known to the Toombs lawyers grade of jHiliticians! Thev nee Schuns in like milliner dealing doubly and testifying in a wav that is dark to that which lie once promised lie would makeclear as Ihe noonday nun, and finally likewise confessing that he hits not and never had ft scintilla of proof that bis assertions so freely and loudly made, had any truth whatever in them. They see Greeley and lleid in like manner exposed in their career as scandal monger. They see them both confessing that they know nothing nt nil of the truth of the charges they so blatantly brought forward. They remark il us n coincidence worthy of note, thut in no case have the chief instigators of the various investigation now going forward and which have been had, failed to testify to the remarkable fact that they knew nothing lieyoinl rumors and the gossip of scandal mongers to support their assertion. The jieople see nn Administration so strong (as it should lie) in its consciousness of its own purity that it throw open everything and defies the closest examination into its acts and intentions. I'i:ndenn'1i. MUSICAL AM) DRAMATIC UOHMI'. Kdwin Forrest met with unprecedented success in his recent Southern lour. In Texas he drew immense audience ut a ticket. There were In 170 eighty-six Italian oK-rutic companies performing in Italy, and eighty-six, in 17I, while this year there are ninety-one. Mr. Feebler began hi! engagement ut (he Iondou Adelphi, on Saturday, March 2, n 7 hi IMm. He was lo act twenty-four nights. Mr. Raphael Felix intends to bring out Sardou' "Rabagas" in lmdon, ut the theater for French plavs which he conducts in that city. Sue' "Wandering Jew," at the l'aris Cluitelet, proves abundantly remunerative, Tim first seventy iierformanivs of thin piece took in SiiO.OOU. Tlie Grand Theater de Furls lias passed into (he hands of M. Mnndol, formerly director of the Theater Rnini,and will rc-ope" with a drama, entitled "Marceau; ou,le Fn Cants do la Republiqiie." Mr. Fechter'snew theater will not om?ii, it is now said, until fall. No one known much nlxiut his company beyond the fact that it will lie mainly Fnglish. The work is progressing on the unique box on Fourteenth street, but it will not Ik finished for some time yet. Mr. Feehtor will remain abroad until late in tho summer. Mr. Augiistin Daly has secured the Icufo of the Grand Opera House for live years, with the privilege of renewal at the expiration of that time, and he proposes making it the Forte St. Martin Theater of NK'ork. Thin will not interfere with the management of the Fifth Avenue residence of the Luliau King and court in Rome, a eorresHindent lrom that city mentions that "more theaters nre open, and managers nre no longer forced to rename their plays nnd oH-rns, nnd some-limes to Kpoil them by ridiculous alterations before, their ierforiiiaiioc is allowed.'' The Opera House nt llrusm-Is since the close of I'anre's engagement has been miserably attended. In fact things have got to such a pitch that the female Ixix oiH'iiers, if the Guide Musical is to be implicitly trusted, nre so alarmed thai (hey liuve asked tho manager to allow their husbands to accompany them in their H-regrinations through the lonely lobbies and corridors, A magnificent piano, which possesses a history, is shortly to be sold nt miction at Met;.. The instrument was manufactured for the l'riucc Imperial of France bv the piano manufacturer of that country, and during the war fell into the hands 'of the I'rus-ians. It was thought thut the Km-pcror William would have restored it lo its youthful owner; but, more business- . like, it seems that ho has determined to put it up at auction for what it will fetch. The new I'ortc Saint Martin Theater in to lie built of the edifice destroyed by the Communists, and tho works havo already commenced. The facade will bo supported by eight enormous columns, the col-onade being preceded by ft kind of terrace, surmounted hy a stone balustrade. The vestibule will Iw spacious, nnd a double broad staircase will lead (o (he first balcony, four other flight conducting from the first tie- to the upper galleries. The celebrated pianist Thai berg has left .me of the richest and most varied cvnteetion of autograph musical scores extanl. It contain orchestral scores and manuscript of all sorts by J. S. Itaeh, Handel, Haydn, Moiart, Cherubini, Wchcr, Rossini, Belli ui, Mendelssohn, nnd other renowned composers. It in the intention of Mdme. Thai berg to dispose of them by sale, and to devote the amount realised to some public charily, her agents being MM. IVtkcii and Uochalt, librarians.The death of Herr ilguniil Davison, the celebrated I'riissjan tragedian, in.n loss to histrionic art. He was one of the most o we r ful, original nnd conscientious nctors on the German stage. Hi crforuniifc of Maclicth, Othello, and other Slink-sS!arinii characters, were entitled to rank ns creations. In Meohistophele he was not less good, and in tho ch1ssic.1l (vw-iot'iv of Germany ho leaves scureely an equal. Herr Davison was in his lifty-lifth year. ( loiinod's Ronton und Juliet, which was n deplorable failure when pnsluccd In this eouniry, has met with a better fate in Russia. Adeliua 1'alli seems to have had the genius lo give it vitality, n Nilsson did to Thomas' Hamlet. The ojiera was recently ierformed at St. I'otersburg in presence of the C.ar and ihe Fm press nnd an immense audience, and was npplnmled lo the who. Arditi let I the orchestra. Nicolini, Gruiiuui, and Ma riant sustained tho mule solo parts, Russia treats French art more hospitably than in old times she tlid French arms. Carbdta 1'atli has Ihvii astonishing ihe musical dilleltanti of Nice by her marvel-oils voice nnd executive ability. A l'aris journal says: "Cat lot ta Fatti "is indeed a wonderful' singer. Her throat is the throat of a ni id din gale, whence flows, without tin effort, a Mashing casende of nolo, pure, clear, is-arly, and glittering its a shower of tirewarks,, She pn.-VH with marvelous facility .without bretik.trom the deep and full notes of the contralto to the hie, It soprano resistor. She entrances nnd as. toiiihe with her roulades, with her airy flights, nnd with the rum1 wilh which she take notes far licyond ihe onlinnry range of vohv." Cnrlotta's recent concert in Turin, in aid of imiMivoriidiod French sufferers, reulied gSiKMi. " Yol Nti MAN, do you ever think V" asked a mild-looking man nei-osling Jones, "Well, yes, tbinik vmi, a it's ft cold morning 1 don't niiml," replied Jones, return ing his quid of tobacco. " I Vui t do it any more," rejoined the mild man, " or yon will eventually Is . Good morning, God hies yoil." J